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Limpopo showed the largest increase, with the Eastern Cape, North West and the Free State with numbers higher than the South African average. In the Northern Cape, however, murder declined to 9.9%, although the reported cases of attempted murder in the province increased with 17.1%. According to the SAPD, the nature of the social contact between the victim and the perpetrator may explain the increase in murders. Most murders are committed indoors, the victims and the perpetrators are known to each other and a large number of murders are also committed in a setting where domestic violence is prominent. Alcohol and drug use and abuse have been identified as one of the factors that could explain the increase in cases. The Northern Cape recorded an increase of 17.1% cases of attempted murder. This is more than 13% above the national average. Mpumalanga, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Gauteng are provinces where there was also a further increase since the previous financial year. In the Free State, Western Cape and North West, there was a decrease in reported cases of attempted murder. Reported incidents of assault increased by 3,472 cases. Limpopo shows a gradual increase in incidents of assault, but in the Western Cape there were 2 154 more cases than the previous year, with a total of 41 304. Gauteng remains the province where most incidents of assault are reported, with a total of 44 255 cases and an increase of 3.1% compared to the previous financial year. The Northern Cape, which is one of the more sparsely populated provinces in South Africa, showed the largest increase in cases of robbery, with an increase of 6.8%. Nationally, however, there has been a decline of reported cases of 1.5%. Limpopo again showed a steady increase, with a difference of 163 cases compared with the previous financial year. Mpumalanga, the Western Cape and the Free State show a decline in reported cases over the same period. Vehicle hijacks, also a subcategory of robbery with aggravated circumstances, showed the largest national increase of all the 17 serious crimes reported by the public. The Northern Cape shows a drastic increase of 213.3%. North West (370), the Western Cape (2 032) and Limpopo (450) are the provinces with the highest increase. The overall national increase was 14.3%; and only KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Free State showed an increase below the national average. No provinces have shown a decrease in reported cases of hijacks.

Tag: SA crime statistics

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