{"id":341117,"date":"2019-09-18T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=341117"},"modified":"2019-09-18T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:24:04","slug":"the-30-worst-areas-for-hijacking-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/341117\/the-30-worst-areas-for-hijacking-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The 30 worst areas for hijacking in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has published its crime stats for the 2018\/19 period, highlighting the areas with the worst hijacking statistics.<\/p>\n

Following a low-point in 2011\/2012, the data shows that carjacking (9,417 reported incidents) has steadily increased across the country, with 16,026 reported incidents over the 2018\/2019 reporting period.<\/p>\n

Most of these incidents occur in Gauteng (7,776), followed by KZN (2,764) and the Western Cape (2,294).<\/p>\n

The large majority of these incidents occur within townships, the SAPS said (15,098 cases), with inner-city hijackings coming a distant second (1,534 cases). This is followed by remote areas (445), national highways (110) and suburbs (97).<\/p>\n

In almost all cases of hijacking, the victims are subjected to threats and assault, where weapons are used to control victims,<\/strong>\u00a0and they are exposed to things like grabbing, shooting, striking, stabbing, slapping and verbal assaults.<\/p>\n

These are the 30 areas with the most reported hijackings in South Africa, based on crimes reported to their station across the 17 community-reported categories:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Station<\/th>\nProvince<\/th>\nReported crimes 2019<\/th>\nChange from 2018<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Durban Central<\/td>\nKZN<\/td>\n765<\/td>\n+19.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Honeydew<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n666<\/td>\n+7.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brooklyn<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n654<\/td>\n-17.5%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Berea<\/td>\nKZN<\/td>\n591<\/td>\n+14.8%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Umbilo<\/td>\nKZN<\/td>\n540<\/td>\n+8.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunnyside<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n511<\/td>\n+3.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lyttleton<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n497<\/td>\n-2.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roodepoort<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n495<\/td>\n+1.9%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wierdabrug<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n463<\/td>\n-5.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JHB Central<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n462<\/td>\n-0.9%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Krugersdorp<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n453<\/td>\n-18.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pretoria Central<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n442<\/td>\n+11.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boksburg North<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n437<\/td>\n+5.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alberton<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n435<\/td>\n+24.6%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vanderbijlpark<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n433<\/td>\n-21.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Florida<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n432<\/td>\n-6.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Booysens<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n409<\/td>\n-10.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Randfontein<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n409<\/td>\n-2.4%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sinoville<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n392<\/td>\n+0.5%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Witbank<\/td>\nMpumalanga<\/td>\n382<\/td>\n+21.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kempton Park<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n372<\/td>\n+24.4%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parkview<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n367<\/td>\n-15.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vereeniging<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n361<\/td>\n-7.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boksburg<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n359<\/td>\n+32.5%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Benoni<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n353<\/td>\n+11.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pretoria West<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n351<\/td>\n+12.1%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Linden<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n339<\/td>\n-41.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brixton<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n326<\/td>\n-0.9%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hillbrow<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n321<\/td>\n-17.7%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pretoria North<\/td>\nGauteng<\/td>\n318<\/td>\n+9.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read: 11 tactics criminals use to hijack vehicles in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has released its crime stats for the 2018\/19 period, highlighting the areas with the worst hijacking statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-341117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341117","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=341117"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341737,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341117\/revisions\/341737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}