No, more than six media companies in world, and ‘Rothschilds’ …
May 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.
FACTSHEET: Total grid collapse? Billions in losses? We answer 10 ...
Aug 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.
Vicious rumours about US vice president Kamala Harris untrue
Published 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: The state of South Africa’s prisons
Jul 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: South Africa's crime statistics for 2019/20
Aug 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 …
Is there finally a cure for HIV? No, not for most people
Feb 23, 2022 · No, not for most people. Published on 23 February 2022. “Apparently HIV cure has been found,” reads a South African Facebook post shared over 3,600 times in just a few days. The 16 February 2022 post echoes similar social media statements, following a widely reported news story that the first woman had been “cured” of HIV.
GUIDE: Where was that photo taken? How to locate (almost) any …
Dec 18, 2018 · Drag and drop. If you use the Chrome browser, click the image you want to search for and, holding the mouse button, drag the image into the search box. Image URL (address). If you can’t save an image to your computer, right-click it and select “copy image address”. You can then paste the URL into the search box.
No, Bill Gates is not practising population control through vaccines ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Disclaimer: Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made up 26% of Africa Check’s income in 2021.. Billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates has said “ If we do a really great job on new vaccines and health care, we could lower the population 10-15%”.. At least, that’s according to a tweet posted by “Dr. Anastasia …
Virginity testing ‘sacred’ but not a science - Africa Check
Feb 10, 2016 · When asked how they conduct virginity inspection, Ngobese told Africa Check that the knowledge is “sacred to us. We do not want to unlock things that are so sacred to us”. She only divulged that “we do it practically with gloves and icansi (grass mat)”. After the testing, the girls that are “pure” are given certificates to prove ...
Beware of ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency scam doing the rounds on …
Aug 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 ...