Police Minister Bheki Cele is due to present the quarterly crime statistics on Friday at 12pm.
This is for crimes committed from 1 July to 30 September, when the country moved from lockdown Level 3 to Level 2, and then 1.
But despite lockdown being enforced, a number of crimes continued unabated, from cash-in-transit heists picking up, to gender-based violence attacks, stock theft and farm murders.
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