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 "title": "Crime victims in South Africa: Stats SA's Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey, 2018/19 to 2025/26",
 "description": "From Stats SA's Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey (GPSJS, P0341): the share of victims who reported each crime to the police, the share of households hit by housebreaking, and the share of people who feel safe walking alone in their area by day and after dark, 2018/19 to 2025/26.",
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   "path": "https://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=425",
   "title": "Stats SA copyright notice: use with acknowledgement of Stats SA as the source"
  }
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 "usageInfo": "Stats SA's copyright notice (https://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=425, read 7 November 2026) says: \"Users may apply the information as they wish, provided that they acknowledge Stats SA as the source of the basic data wherever they process, apply, utilise, publish or distribute the data, and also that they specify that the relevant application and analysis (where applicable) result from their own processing of the data.\" These tables are MzansiData's processing of Stats SA's data. If you use them, name Stats SA as the source of the basic data and say that any analysis is your own.",
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   "title": "Stats SA, Victims of Crime: Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2025/26, P0341 (released 1 September 2026)",
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