As of the 2022/2023 fiscal year, the most common causative factor for kidnappings in South Africa was hijacking-related, with 2,851 reports from a select sample. This motive for kidnapping accounted for almost 19 percent of all kidnapping cases in the country. Robbery-related abductions followed, with 1,175 reports out of the select sample in the period under review.
Causative factors of kidnapping in South Africa in 2022/2023
The fiscal year runs from April to March of each year.
The values were taken from quarterly South African Police Service reports from 2022/2023, and have been aggregated by Statista in order to get the total values. The source only provided select causative factors for kidnapping in all four quarters.
* Data for the third and fourth quarters was not provided. The sample size for the first quarter was 3,426, and the sample size for quarter two was 3,648.
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