The South African fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31.
The values were taken from quarterly South African Police Service reports from 2022/2023, and have been aggregated by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ in order to get the total values.
The values cover only reported crimes.
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Common areas where contact crime occurs in South Africa 2022/2023
In FY 2022/2023, the suburb of Johannesburg Central in the Gauteng province of South Africa had the highest number of contact crime recorded incidents, with reports. Nyanga (Western Cape) followed with reports. Combining the number of incidents in all ** hot-spot areas accounts for around eight percent of the total number of contact crimes in the observed period.
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