Category: Crime
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Despite rising crime rate, SA has dire shortage of forensic experts
South Africa should ideally have 330 forensic pathologists, an expert says. Instead there are only about 50 working in the public sector.
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Women murders in SA: Filling in the details
The number of women being killed is rising. Data we’ve collected for the past 5 years gives insight into who these women were and what happened to them.
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Murder in the municipalities: 21 councillors killed in 22 months
In South Africa, the murder rate among municipal ward councillors is six times higher than the national rate of 45 murders per 100,000 people
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Nine women killed per day in South Africa
This number is higher than the year before. SA has one of the worst rates of female homicides in the world, according to the UN.
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More than 1,000 kidnappings a month have been reported since January
One province is driving this increase – Gauteng
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Home burglaries have dropped in all the previous hotspots. See what your local station looks like
The latest crime stats show that fewer home burglaries have been reported this year at the 10 police stations that reported the highest number of cases before Covid.
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Femicide in the police force: when officers kill their partners
Over three years, police watchdog IPID logged 48 cases where police officers allegedly killed their current or former intimate partners.
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Is kidnapping on the rise?
The Outlier looked at the latest crime stats for the last three months of 2021 and beyond to see if more kidnapping cases are being reported to the police.
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Hard lockdowns, liquor bans and the effect they have on crime
Reports of most violent crimes dropped significantly following the start of the lockdown and the alcohol ban in March 2020.