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South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [103] 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. [104]
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
The SAPS precinct area for Nyanga in Cape Town as of 2019 after Samora Machel was separated to become its own precinct area. The high rate of violent crime in Nyanga had earned the area the moniker "murder capital of South Africa" with 289 recorded homicides in 2018/19, [7] until it was overtaken by another precinct area in 2022. [8]
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 ...
The regions and subregions in the table are based on the United Nations geoscheme since the table sources are United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports. The U.N. recognizes that variability in the quality and integrity of data provided by certain countries may minimize country murder rates.
A man was charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder on Thursday for allegedly causing a deadly fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the ...
Capital punishment in South Africa (2 C, 6 P) ... People convicted of murder by South Africa (55 P) D. Murders in South Africa by decade (12 C) E.
South African government data indicated between 58 and 74 murders on farms annually in the period 2015–2017; out of an annual murder count of 20,000 total murders in South Africa; [25] [26] these figures are broadly consistent with figures collected by the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU), a farmers' union.