Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Reference ID

ZAF_2024-2025_GPSJS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Feb 23, 2026

Last modified

Feb 23, 2026

Courts: Main reason for visiting court (COURTREAIND)

Data file: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	As a witness
2	As the accused
3	As the person who brought charges/litigant
4	A civil/administrative matter (custody, divorce, eviction etc.)
5	Just interested in the outcome of the matter
6	To support a family member or a friend
7	Other (specify)
8	Not applicable

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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