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Get it on Google PlayTsamaya marks reported hijacking and smash-and-grab spots on the map and tells you as you approach one. It is awareness only and never changes your route.
What a hotspot is
Off-ramps, intersections and stretches of road where hijackings and smash-and-grabs have been reported.
Compiled from public reporting (SAPS, NHPA/Arrive Alive, regional news). Approximate and not a complete list. Each hotspot is labelled by its road: Tsamaya names roads, never the neighbourhoods around them.
There are 115 on the map today, in 7 metros.
What Tsamaya does
By metro
These are counts of reported spots, not a measure of how risky a metro is. A metro with more ratings or more reporting will show more.
| Metro | Reported hotspots |
|---|---|
| Johannesburg | 34 |
| Cape Town | 29 |
| Pretoria | 25 |
| Ekurhuleni | 20 |
| West Rand | 3 |
| Durban | 3 |
| Secunda | 1 |
Limits
The list is compiled from public reporting and is not complete, so a stretch with no marker is not a stretch without risk. A hotspot says something has been reported at a spot. It does not say it will happen to you, or that it will not happen elsewhere. Lower risk is not no risk.
Questions
Yes. Reported hijacking and smash-and-grab spots show on the map and you hear a heads-up as you approach one. They are awareness only: a hotspot never changes your route, and the list is not complete. Each is labelled by its road, never by the neighbourhood around it.
Yes. Known fixed speed cameras show on the map and you hear a heads-up as one comes up. It is a list of the cameras we know about, not a complete one, and coverage is better in some metros than others. The pins and the spoken alerts each have a switch in Settings.
No. Hotspots are awareness only. Your route is planned from the rated areas and checked roads for the hour you drive. A hotspot gives you a marker and a heads-up as you approach, so you can pay attention at that spot.
Published South African crime statistics, scored against map data to work out where vehicle crime concentrates. An AI review gives a second opinion on the ratings, and a person sense-checks the results, looking closely at any that stand out. After that, drivers' reports refine the map: a person reads each one before anything changes.
No, and we will never tell you otherwise. Tsamaya cuts your exposure to areas with a history of vehicle crime. Crime is not predictable, and no route is safe. Lower risk is not no risk: treat it as better information for the choice you were going to make anyway.
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