Housebreaking a major headache in SA

Home robbery is classified as a crime where there is contact between the perpetrators and one or more household members. It is often more violent than housebreaking where there is no contact between the perpetrator and victims.

The survey reflected more than 1.5 million incidents of crime being experienced by households in South Africa in 2017-18 – an increase from about 1.2-million incidents recorded during the previous year.

The survey said 1.6 million individuals were victims of crime in 2017-18‚ of whom 74% experienced theft of personal property‚ robbery or assault.

Theft of motor vehicles increased from 47‚586 in 2016-17 to 56‚256 incidents in 2017-18.

Clothes (31%) were the most common items stolen during housebreaking‚ followed by cellphones (23.6%) and food (22.2%).

South Africans canvassed believed that crime‚ particularly property crime‚ had increased during the past three years.

Households were asked in the survey about their satisfaction with the way in which courts generally dealt with perpetrators‚ their reasons for being satisfied or dissatisfied‚ and their feelings about sentences imposed on perpetrators of crime.

The survey found that 54.2% of South African households were satisfied with how police dealt with crime‚ down from 57.3% the previous year.

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