A report based on 1999 data collected by the Medical Research Council, the University of Cape Town and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, says that a woman is killed every six hours by their partner in South Africa.

Furthermore, the study found that less than 40 percent of the homicides lead to a conviction.

According to the study, "a woman is killed by her intimate partner in South Africa every six hours. This is the highest rate (8.8 per 100,000 female population 14 years and older) that has ever been reported in research anywhere in the world."

The study further estimates that "1,349 women were murdered by an intimate partner nationally in 1999."

The study claims that only 37.3 percent of all female homicides lead to a conviction and only 35.1 percent of "intimate femicides" resulted in one.

According to the study found that women of mixed race are the most at risk of being killed by their partner, with 18.3 out of 100,000 dying that way in 1999, CNN reports.