User Guide > StatsSA > Judiciary

This page outlines what legal data Codera makes available through EconData. This “Judiciary” Category falls under our EconData StatsSA Category Scheme. In these dataflow docs, we outline the dimensions in the series keys we use, and detail the codes used in those concepts.

Civil Cases for Debt

This statistical release contains the results of a monthly sample survey of civil cases recorded and civil summonses for debt issued in South Africa. This information is obtained from selected magistrates offices. Please click on this paragraph to show detail.

ID: CIVIL_CASES

Publication code: P0041

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Series names

Total CIV001
Goods Sold Open Account CIV002
Goods Sold Installment Sales CIV003
Services Professional CIV004
Services Other CIV005
Rent CIV006
Money Lent CIV007
Promissory Notes CIV008
Other CIV009
Total Western Cape CIV010
Total Eastern Cape CIV011
Total Northern Cape CIV012
Total Free State CIV013
Total KwaZulu-Natal CIV014
Total Northwest CIV015
Total Gauteng Province CIV016
Total Mpumalanga CIV017
Total Limpopo CIV018
Total Cape Peninsula CIV019
Total Port Elizabeth CIV020
Total East London CIV021
Total Kimberley CIV022
Total Pietermaritzburg CIV023
Total Durban CIV024
Total Johannesburg CIV025
Total East Rand CIV026
Total West Rand CIV027
Total Pretoria CIV028
Total Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark CIV029
Total Bloemfontein CIV030

Liquidations

This statistical release reflects voluntary and compulsory liquidations of companies and close corporations. Please click on this paragraph to show detail.

ID: LIQUIDATIONS

Publication code: P0043.1

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Frequency: monthly

Dimensions

1. Mnemonic

LIQ004 Total
LIQ005 Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing
LIQ006 Mining and quarrying
LIQ007 Manufacturing
LIQ008 Electricity, gas and water
LIQ009 Construction
LIQ010 Wholesale and retail trade, catering and accommodation
LIQ011 Transport, storage, communication
LIQ012 Financing, insurance, real estate, business services
LIQ013 Community, social, personal services
LIQ014 Unclassified

2. Organisation Type

A All
M Private Enterprise
C Close Corporation

3. Insolvency Type

All series represent liquidations, except for two insolvencies series (LIQ001.A.I.A.N and LIQ001.A.I.A.S) that were discontinued from September 2021. However, for ease of use we top-up the discontinued non-seasonally adjusted series with the revised insolvency series that started in January 2023 (see new P0043.2 dataset below).

4. Origination

A Any
C Compulsory
V Voluntary

5. Seasonal Transformation

All series are neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted, except for one (LIQ001.A.I.A.S).

Insolvencies

This dataset tracks the number of insolvencies (individuals and partnerships only) reported monthly by Statistics South Africa, broken down nationally and by province. Please click on this paragraph to show detail.

Statistics South Africa split insolvency statistics off from the old combined P0043 release in April 2023. The underlying source data (from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development) went dark from September 2021 due to a documented cyber incident (ransomware attack) at that department. StatsSA published the first-ever standalone P0043.2 release on 21 July 2026 (reference month June 2026), with the reconstructed series starting January 2023 — StatsSA’s own release text notes: “there is a break in the time series data between September 2021 and December 2022 … this release does not represent a continuation of the previous series.”

Scope is individuals and partnerships only — insolvencies of companies and close corporations are a separate StatsSA release (P0043.1) and are carried instead under the LIQUIDATIONS dataflow.

Dataset ID: INSOLVENCIES

Attributes

Unit of Measure (Number)
Frequency (Monthly)
Seasonally Adjusted (No — StatsSA publishes actual, non-seasonally-adjusted figures only for this release)
Source Dataset (P0043.2)
Label (province name, or “Total/National” for the country total)