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Violent crime in South Africa has spiked over the past decade after a period when it decreased substantially. There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with ...
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [105] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [106]
At 45 per 100,000 people in 2022/23, South Africa's murder rate was the highest in 20 years, police figures show, roughly equivalent to Ecuador's and higher than that of Honduras, a country ...
A view shows a crime scene after at least 18 cash-in-transit robbers were shot and killed during a shootout with a specialist police unit in Makhado, Limpopo, South Africa, September 1, 2023 ...
Thabo Bester (born 13 June 1986) [4] is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. [5] [6] He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023. [7]
Forensic experts, members of crime intelligence, and a tactical unit led by the Provincial Organised Crime Investigation Unit were sent to Pietermaritzburg to investigate the shooting. [ 6 ] Between 11 and 12 July 2022, police arrested four suspects, aged between 19 and 36, in connection with the shooting. [ 7 ]
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Hijacked buildings in South Africa are abandoned or vacant buildings that have been illegally occupied by individuals or groups, often criminal syndicates. The phenomenon is particularly common in Johannesburg and Durban , where there are an estimated 200 large hijacked buildings and 250 private dwellings. [ 1 ]