Aug 19, 2022
RawNews1st – Regarding the quarterly crime statistics, the South African Police Service reported that 6 424 murders were committed in Q1.
Which translates to about 71 murders per day or 3 murders per hour.
While there has been a decrease in contact crime, sexual offences, contact-related crime and property crime, police have recorded an increase in commercial crime as well as other serious crimes in the first quarter of 2022/23.
It is understood that the three main causes for murders remain arguments and misunderstandings. Retaliations and revenge murders were the second motive for murder, and vigilantism was the third most likely cause of murder in South Africa.
Police Minister Bheki Cele on Friday delivered an update of the crime statistics covering April 1 to June 2022.
He said sexual violence, which covers rape, sexual assault, attempted sexual offences and contact sexual offences, had decreased.
“This means there was a drop of over 800 cases of sexual offences that are far more often perpetrated on women. Between April and June this year, 286 rapists were convicted through investigative work done by the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences unit.
Out of the 286 rape convictions, 46 of the rapists were sentenced to life behind bars.
Cele said this is an increase of 664 more people murdered compared with the same period last year, when the country was placed under Covid-19 lockdown levels one and two.
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