GUIDE: Understanding crime statistics in South Africa - Africa Check
WEBSep 12, 2013 — However, America’s population at the time was 307 million while South Africa’s was a little over 49 million. When viewed as crime rates or ratios rather than raw numbers, the statistics yield a completely different picture: a murder rate of 4.96 per 100,000 (US) compared to 34.1 (SA) per 100,000. …
Vicious rumours about US vice president Kamala Harris untrue
WEBPublished on 26 March 2021. A screenshot shared widely on Facebook in South Africa claims recently appointed US vice president Kamala Harris was once a “high-end call girl”. The Afrikaans caption to the post reads: “Een van die dae is USA ook in die gutters!”. This translates to: “One of these days the USA will also be in the gutters.”.
FACTSHEET: South Africa's crime statistics for 2019/20
WEBAug 4, 2020 — The police released South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20 on 31 July 2020, a month earlier than expected. This comes on the back of a June 2016 resolution to release the statistics every three months, minister of police Bheki Cele said in the briefing. He said he believed the new approach “would allow for timeous intervention measures aimed at crime reduction”.
No, more than six media companies in world, and ‘Rothschilds’ …
WEBMay 12, 2022 — “There are 6 media companies that exist today, but there used to be 88,” begins text on a screenshot posted on Facebook in South Africa in April 2022. “All 6 get their news from Reuters and the Associated Press.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela didn’t die in 1985 ...
WEBJul 22, 2021 — No, former South African president Nelson Mandela didn’t die in 1985 while in prison – conspiracy theory bungles facts. Published on 22 July 2021. “The Real Nelson Mandela died in 1985,” begins a long Facebook post that has been viewed more than a million times since it was shared on 6 July 2021. It claims that the former South African ...
Beware of ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency scam doing the rounds on …
WEBAug 17, 2023 — The “Elon Musk Bitcoin giveaway” is a scam that has affected thousands of people across the world. In 2021, the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) reported how Julie Bushnell, a teacher, was conned into depositing £9,000 (approximately $11,500) with the hope of receiving double that amount back. Africa Check found a website where more ...
FACTSHEET: The state of South Africa’s prisons
WEBJul 18, 2017 — At the end of March 2017, South Africa’s prisons only had 119,134 bed spaces available for an average inmate population of 160,280. “The main driving factor behind overcrowding is the remand detainee population,” Clare Ballard from the advocacy organisation Lawyers for Human Rights told Africa Check. Legal Aid South Africa’s Wilna ...
FACTSHEET: Total grid collapse? Billions in losses? We answer 10 ...
WEBAug 15, 2023 — An interesting – or, more likely, disturbing – fact: this November will mark the 16th anniversary of load shedding in South Africa. The country has been experiencing electricity problems since November 2007, when the state-owned power utility Eskom began struggling to meet demand.At the time, then president Thabo Mbeki conceded that his government should have expanded capacity.
FACTSHEET: Africa's population projections - Africa Check
WEBOct 22, 2014 — The central projection by the United Nations that the population of Africa will grow to 1.467-billion by 2025, add a further billion by 2050 and climb to 4.185-billion by 2100 is just that, a projection, or as Statistics South Africa's Diego Iturralde would have it, an "educated guessing game". Nevertheless, such projections, though uncertain ...
Do 15% of SA's population have a drug problem? We fact-check 4 ...
WEBJun 23, 2016 — The statement that about 15% of South Africans having a drug problem has been quoted extensively, in a government press release, news headline, addiction rehabilitation groups and among religious drug support groups. The earliest mention we could trace was in a book published in 2009 titled …