As of the 2022/2023 fiscal year, common assault was the most frequently reported form of domestic violence-related crimes among men and women, with 51,683 and 11,175 cases, respectively. Assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm followed, whereby 19,960 women and 8,294 men were subjected to domestic violence. Domestic violence-related common assault accounted for around 34 percent of the overall number of common assault reports in the same period.
Number of domestic violence-related crimes in South Africa in 2022/2023, by gender
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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 provided selected domestic violence-related crimes in all four quarters.
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