- During 2008/2009 a total of 72,194 (59.5%) of all aggravated robberies were street/public robberies. In 38% of street robberies, knives were used.
- Knives and other sharp objects were the most common instruments used to kill victims (52,2%), followed by firearms (28,8%) and blunt objects (12,7%) according to a new analysis of a representative sample of 1 348 murder dockets linked to cases reported nationally over the period 2007/2008.
- During 2008/2009 a total of 2,098,229 (approximately 2,1 million) serious crime cases were registered in the RSA
- Of the approximately 2,1 million cases, roughly 686,120 (32.7%) were contact crimes and 551,000 (26.3%) were other serious crimes.
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