South Africa: Factsheet - South Africa's Crime Statistics for 2018/19

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The rate of murder, sexual offences and assault has risen in South Africa. We summarise data on eight categories of crime from the police's statistics for April 2018 to March 2019.

South Africa's crime statistics for 2018/19 were released by the police in parliament on 12 September 2019. Minister of police Bheki Cele began the briefing by saying the statistics were "not very rosy".

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