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Police minister Bheki Cele has decried the number of crimes committed against women.
Releasing the latest crime stats for the period between July and September, Cele said the rate at which women are abused, violated and killed in South Africa remains worrying and unacceptable; many are killed by the people they know, people they love and trust.
The minister also said more than 10,000 rape cases were opened with the police between July and September this year.
According to the crime stats, buses, taxis, trains and other modes of public transport were the third most likely places of occurrence for rape incidents.
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Cele said Mpumalanga is the only province that had a decline in reported rape cases.
Inanda police station in KwaZulu-Natal, Mthatha in the Eastern Cape and Delft in the Western Cape are the three top stations with the highest number of rape cases.
In the three months, Cele said 410 rapists were arrested, of whom 68 have been sentenced to life behind bars.
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Kidnappings are increasing in all provinces but Gauteng is leading the pack, accounting for 26 of the 30 police stations with reported cases.
Vosloorus, Johannesburg Central and Thembisa are at the top of the list of those with the most cases.
Gauteng reported the most kidnappings, with 1,935.
Other contributors were domestic cases, where children were removed from parents or guardians,, extortion, ransom, retaliation, revenge, human trafficking and mob justice.
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