Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Dec 04, 2025

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Courts: Main reason you are dissatisfied (WHYNOT)

Data file: household-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20788

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Mean: 5.9376082355205

Standard deviation: 2.3411590161947

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Do not have enough convictions	768	3.7%
2	Matters drag for too long/postponements	1895	9.1%
3	Do proper notice of hearing is served	470	2.3%
4	Courts are too lenient on criminals	4251	20.4%
5	Courts are corrupt	1208	5.8%
6	Grant bail easily	1247	6%
7	Some people get preferential treatment	766	3.7%
8	Court staff not accessible	10072	48.5%
9	Other (specify)	111	0.5%

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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