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Crime in South Africa. A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per 100,000 in 2021 ...
The Cape Town Prostitute Killer, also known as The Cape Town Strangler, is an unidentified South African serial killer who fatally strangled 16 prostitutes and three domestic workers in Cape Town between 1992 and 1996. His modus operandi consisted of picking up his victims on rainy nights, fatally strangling them in his car, and dumping their ...
Nafiz Modack. The murder of Charl Kinnear occurred at around 15:03 SAST on 18 September 2020 [ 1] as he was leaving his home in Bishop Lavis, Cape Town, South Africa. [ 2] He was shot multiple times in the upper body whilst seated in the driver's seat of his white Toyota Corolla resulting in his death. [ 2]
Shrien Dewani. Anni Ninna Dewani ( née Hindocha; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a Swedish woman of Indian origin who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda ...
The history of gangs in South Africa goes back to the Apartheid era. Many South African gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. This includes cities like Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Cape Town has between 90 and 130 gangs [1] with the South African Police Service stating a total estimated membership of 100,000.
List of U.S. states by homicide rate; List of United States cities by crime rate (2014) Number of guns per capita by country; Right to keep and bear arms in the United States; United States cities by crime rate (100,000–250,000) United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)
Rashied Staggie (1961 - 13 December 2019 [1]) was a South African gangster and leader of the Hard Livings gang. [2] He was shot and killed in Salt River on 13 December 2019, [3] in Cape Town, South Africa. His twin brother, Rashaad Staggie, the initial leader of the Hard Livings gang, was killed after being shot and burned alive in Salt River ...
South Africa has one of the world's largest HIV epidemics. [4] A study by the SA National Aids Council (Sanac) estimated that there was a 60% infection rate, [30] although this varies from area to area, for example, Johannesburg 72%, Durban 54% and Cape Town 40%. [31] The reluctance to use condoms has contributed significantly to the epidemic.