Crime Statistics – The Mail & Guardian

/ 31 August 2024

Rape survivor fights for justice: ‘I live in fear, will someone else get me?’

Thousands of rape cases are in limbo because the police apparently can’t check fingerprints on the department of home affairs’ database

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By Lyse Comins

Crime

/ 30 August 2024

Police crime statistics: Spike in murders of women and children

The latest data shows that contact crimes and rapes are on the rise

By Lyse Comins

National

/ 25 August 2024

South Africa’s ‘expertise in security’ attracted Libyan group for training

The country is viewed as highly skilled because of its response to high crime levels, and training is offered at competitive prices

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By Lyse Comins

National

/ 27 April 2024

Government owes KwaZulu-Natal municipalities R3 billion for rates, water, electricity

Households are battling to keep up with their municipal bills in the face of stubbornly high interest rates, according to Salga

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By Lyse Comins

Politics

/ 16 October 2023

No need to axe police minister, says ANC

The chair of the party’s subcommittee on peace and stability, Polly Boshielo, says it trusts and supports Cele, despite calls for him to be dismissed

By Lizeka Tandwa

National

/ 18 August 2023

Crime stats: spike in cop killings

Overall cases of murder have dropped slightly but killing of police has almost doubled over the past three months

By Lyse Comins

National

/ 23 July 2023

Wentworth drug wars claim more young lives

Residents say scores of young people are recruited by gangs and are gunned down in the Durban suburb where revenge killings are a reality

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By Lyse Comins

National

/ 7 July 2023

eThekwini metro police arrest six men linked to parts stolen from municipal vehicles

The arrests come during an increase in municipal vehicle hijackings

By Lyse Comins

National

/ 30 May 2023

Bheki Cele: Police weekend operations key to reducing murder rate

The police minister announced a 2.8% decline in rapes reported in January to March 2023 compared with the same period last year

By Khaya Koko

Friday

/ 6 March 2023

Hosia Malekane’s novel breaks the silence on gender-based violence

‘The Imperatives of Revoking Our Silence’ highlights students’ experiences of sexual assault on university campuses

By Sonri Naidoo

National

/ 17 February 2023

Crime stats: Violence in South Africa is getting worse

More than 82 people a day are murdered in the country

By Khaya Koko

National

/ 23 November 2022

Quality of police recruits questioned as rape stats spike by 11%

A total of 13 283 sexual assault cases were reported in just three months from July to September

By Khaya Koko

National

/ 10 October 2022

SA kidnappings surge to over 1 000 a month in 2022

The number of kidnappings in South Africa has been increasing sharply over the past year

By Laura Grant and Gemma Ritchie

National

/ 17 May 2022

Police resources might further drop in Nyanga, former ‘murder capital’ of SA

Provincial government and the City of Cape Town cannot plug the gap for national government’s responsibility for crime prevention, says DA

By Eunice Masson

National

/ 18 February 2022

Latest crime statistics: Murder, kidnapping and commercial crimes increase

The murder of women continued its upward trajectory in the last three months of 2021, while kidnapping showed the biggest increase of all categories of crime.

By Emsie Ferreira and Khaya Koko

National

/ 22 November 2021

Maintenance payments used to coerce, manipulate, and punish women – it’s also violence

Sonke Gender Justice points finger at fathers who withhold maintenance payments to coerce, manipulate, and punish the mothers of their children

By Eunice Masson

National

/ 1 October 2021

Human trafficking is the most pervasive criminal market — global report

South Africa’s scores 4.5 out of 10 for human trafficking, the 2021 Global Organised Crime Index finds

By Eunice Masson

National

/ 11 August 2021

Gauteng remains house robbery hotspot, says AfricaScope

Statistics South Africa, the number of houses hit has increased from 2.1-million in 2015-16 to 2.3-million in 2019-20

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By Chris Gilili

National

/ 14 May 2021

Drugs and alcohol abuse rage in crime stats

Substance abuse has emerged as a reason for the spike in crimes during the first quarter of 2021.

By Khaya Koko

Opinion

/ 18 February 2021

The heavy price of pushing masculinity

In the frantic pursuit of patriarchal ideas of manhood, boys often lose their ability to love — this paves the way for cruelty and violence

By Andile Zulu

Business

/ 22 November 2020

The price of violence: R145-billion

The costs include expenditure on security, justice and health rather than on productive efforts, investment is driven away and psychological effects results in lower productivity

By Tshegofatso Mathe

National

/ 27 August 2020

Real action on gender-based violence a pipe dream as women die every day

Backlogs, booze, testicular cancer — all factors blamed for the apparent ineptitude or unwillingness to tackle a pandemic that is silently killing women all over the country.

By Athandiwe Saba, Sarah Smit and M&G Data Desk