Top 10 areas you are most likely to be a target of violent crime in SA
11 September 2018
South Africans were given the grim news on Tuesday that the murder rate had increased in the last financial year, after Police Minister Bheki Cele and his team presented the 2017/18 crime statistics in Parliament.
Sure to be on every citizen's minds are where they or their property are the most likely to be a target of violence or threatening "contact crime".
The police have released the top stations where these so-called contact crimes were most reported or recorded.
Contact crimes include murder, attempted murder, assault with grievous bodily harm, common assault, common robbery, robbery aggravating and sexual assault.