South Africa
#CrimeStats: 6 400+ people murdered in SA in just three months─── 06:34 Sat, 20 Aug 2022
More than 6 400 people were murdered in South Africa in just three months between April and June, which is an 11.5% increase when compared with the same period in 2021.
Minister of Police Bheki Cele, along with South African Police Service management, released the quarterly statistics on Friday.
Reflecting on the statistics, Cele said the murder rate in South Africa remained high and worrisome.
Between April and June 2022, a total of 6 424 people were murdered - that's 664 more people murdered compared to the 5 760 people murdered during the same period the previous year.
Watch: Release of Crime Stats for Quarter 1 of 2022/ 2023. https://t.co/FbW735cHg0
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According to these statistics, around 70 people were murdered in South Africa every day during the reporting period.
The overwhelming majority of victims were adult men, with 855 women and 243 children murdered.
Of the murders committed, 1 623 were recorded in KwaZulu-Natal, followed by Gauteng with 1 490, Eastern Cape, 1 200, and the Western Cape recorded 994 murders in that period.
