Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025
South Africa, 2024 - 2025
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Feb 23, 2026
Last modified
Feb 23, 2026
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- household-2024-2025-v1
- individual-2024-2025-v1
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
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As a witness | 83 |
0.4%
|
| 2 | As the accused | 207 |
1%
|
| 3 | As the person who brought charges/litigant | 220 |
1.1%
|
| 4 | A civil/administrative matter (custody, divorce, eviction etc.) | 136 |
0.7%
|
| 5 | Just interested in the outcome of the matter | 76 |
0.4%
|
| 6 | To support a family member or a friend | 235 |
1.1%
|
| 7 | Other (specify) | 64 |
0.3%
|
| 8 | Not applicable | 19682 |
95.1%
|
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.