{"id":207583,"date":"2017-10-26T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=207583"},"modified":"2017-10-26T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:54:31","slug":"the-worst-hijacking-areas-in-south-africa-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/207583\/the-worst-hijacking-areas-in-south-africa-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst hijacking areas in South Africa in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African police service has released its crime statistics for 2017, showing a major increase in the number of carjackings taking place in the country.<\/p>\n

According to the SAPS’ data, carjackings increased 14.5% between 2016 and 2017, taking the crime rate to its worst levels in a decade.<\/p>\n

The data captured at police stations across the country recorded\u00a016,717 carjackings between April 2016 and March 2017, roughly 46 cars stolen per day on SA streets.<\/p>\n

Crime information portal, crimestatssa.com has broken down the SAPS even further, revealing the specific areas where these crimes are most common.<\/p>\n

As has always been the case, hijacking is most common in South Africa\u2019s most populated province, Gauteng, followed by other built up provinces such as KwaZulu Natal and the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

Gauteng remains the biggest hotspot for carjackings, with as many as 8,610 incidents reported, up 16.9%, followed by 3,029 incidents in KwaZulau-Natal, up 21.5%.<\/p>\n

Worst carjacking areas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nyanga in the Western Cape has retained its title as South Africa’s worst carjacking area, topping the list again in 2017; Booysens in Joburg also maintained its second place rank. Pinetown tied with Jeppe in third.<\/p>\n

New entries to the ‘worst 10’ list for carjackings include Rietgat in Gauteng, Ivory Park, Delft, and Harare (Western Cape).<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nPrecinct<\/th>\nProvince<\/th>\nNo. of crimes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nNyanga<\/td>\nWestern Cape<\/td>\n257<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nBooysens<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nPinetown<\/td>\nKwaZulu Natal<\/td>\n238<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nJeppe<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n238<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSoshanguve<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n192<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nHarare<\/strong><\/td>\nWestern Cape<\/td>\n173<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nDelft<\/strong><\/td>\nWestern Cape<\/td>\n164<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nIvory Park<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nGugulethu<\/td>\nWestern Cape<\/td>\n157<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nRietgat<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n156<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Truck hijacking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alberton in Gauteng climbed to the top of the list of the worst precincts for truck hijackings, with former number one, Heidelberg, dropping to fifth.<\/p>\n

New entries into the ‘worst 10’ include Witbank, Lyttelton (Centurion) and Zonkizizwe.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nPrecinct<\/th>\nProvince<\/th>\nNo. of crimes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nAlberton<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nKempton Park<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDelmas<\/td>\nMpumalanga<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nWitbank<\/strong><\/td>\nMpumalanga<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nHeidelberg<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nBedfordview<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nOlifantsfontein<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nOgies<\/td>\nMpumalanga<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nLyttelton<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nZonkizizwe<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Vehicle theft<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berea in KZN has moved up the list to be the worst vehicle theft spot in South Africa, followed by Brooklyn, Pretoria, and Durban central – pushing former number one, Honeydew, down to fourth.<\/p>\n

New areas in the 2017 ‘worst 10’ include Lyttelton and Wierdabrug (Centurion), and Vanderbijlpark.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/th>\nPrecinct<\/th>\nProvince<\/th>\nNo. of crimes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nBerea<\/td>\nKwaZulu Natal<\/td>\n783<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nBrooklyn<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n748<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDurban Central<\/td>\nKwaZulu Natal<\/td>\n727<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nHoneydew<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n719<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nLyttelton<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nBooysens<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nWierdabrug<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n561<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nLinden<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n559<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nVanderbijlpark<\/strong><\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n527<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nRoodepoort<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n518<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read:\u00a0Carjacking in South Africa at its worst level in a decade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crime information portal, crimestatssa.com has broken down the SAPS crime data, revealing the worst areas in South Africa for carjacking, truck hijacking and vehicle theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":135075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207595,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207583\/revisions\/207595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}