South Africans continues to face violent crimes daily with 70 people killed and over a hundred rapes are reported daily. Presenting crime statistics for the period between July and September, police Minister Bheki Cele revealed that 6 945 South Africans were murdered in three months. Thats more than 70 people murdered daily. Also in the third quarter of 2023, Cele said 10 516 people mostly women and girl children were sexually assault while 42 297 others were seriously assaulted.

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE 

South Africa is the sixth country in the world with highest rape rate with 13 090 rape cases reported in the second quarter of 2023. In the same period, more than  800 women were reported killed while 293 children were murdered. The rate at which women are killed by their intimate partners in this country is five times higher than the global average. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, at a summit on gender-based violence said the murder of women have increased by 50% last year and called for action to stop the trend. "It is a story of a nation that is seemingly at war with itself, a nation that is at war with the women of this country and the children of this country," Ramaphosa said. National police reported 1,753 women were murdered in just the first half of last year. The latest crime stats revealed that women of this country continue to be stalked by violence, mainly at the hands of men they know. A double digit percentage increase of 21.5% was recorded in attempted murder figures for the fourth quarter. This means there were 1 485 attempted murders of women in South Africa in the first three months of this year. 969 women were killed in the same period and over 15 000 women were assaulted and the SAPS are investigating assault GBH cases.

MURDER

KZN has been dubbed the murder capital with it ranking the highest of incidents of killings throughout last year. The province has also recorded their highest multiple murder cases followed by the Eastern Cape with 206 and 155 victims respectively. There has been a spade of mass killings in the province which have left many living in fear. The latest crime stats indicate that more than 6000 were killed with either a firearm, knife, sharp and blunt instruments, stone and even bare hands in a period of three months. The motives for the murder range from arguments, GBV, vigilantism and robberies topping the motive list for murder.

RAPE 

Almost 53,900 South Africans reported being a victim of a sexual crime. Of those, around 80 percent registered being raped, while close to 7,600 South Africans disclosed being sexually assaulted. These incidents include victims of both genders and many of them know who their perpetrators are.