Limpopo residents feel the safest of all South Africans while walking alone on the streets of their neighbourhoods during the day and at night, according to the latest findings of the Victims of Crime Survey.
On Thursday, Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke released a report of the latest findings on how households and people experienced crime in 2022/23.
The report found Mpumalanga recorded the highest proportion of people who felt unsafe walking alone at night, followed by Gauteng and the Free State.The report showed Limpopo had the highest proportion of households that trusted their neighbours enough to let them look after their children for more than an hour, followed by the North West and Free State.
He said the survey focused on housebreaking, house robbery, murder, sexual offences, assault, and deliberate damaging of dwellings. An estimated 238 000 incidences of home robberies occurred, affecting 195 000 households in the same period.
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