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Murder rate South Africa. This is a graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) from 1915 to 2023. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to a record of 85 murders per 100,000 in 2023 .
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Hanging was maintained as the preferred method, as in most post-independence cases of criminal law, following South Africa's independence as a republic in 1961.At the same time, South Africa saw mounting international criticism against purposely political executions of anti-apartheid activists convicted of violent crimes; mainly blacks, but occasionally whites, the case of Frederick John ...
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The African National Congress party lost its majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system ...
Abduction and murder of three black South African anti-apartheid activists by members of the South African security police. Landmines planted on farm roads: 1985 to 1987 On farm roads across South Africa. 23–25 [19] At least 150 landmines were planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe. The Cradock Four murders: 27 June 1985 town of Cradock, Eastern Cape 4
The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ...
The SAPS stopped releasing homicide statistics on farm murders in 2007 instead merging them with all homicide figures, this has increased the difficulty of accessing reliable statistics on the phenomenon with most studies since relying on data from the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South Africa (TAUSA) instead.