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”.
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 …
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.
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: Understanding Nigeria's new varsity admission rules
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Every year, the board announces the cut-off mark for admission to higher education. Candidates with a UTME score below this mark can’t be offered admission. In 2020, the cut-off was 160 out of 400 for universities, 120 for polytechnics and 100 for colleges of education. Individual institutions were also allowed to …
GUIDE: Where was that photo taken? How to locate (almost) any …
WEBDec 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.
Defining migration, migrants, and refugees (and why it matters ...
WEBAug 15, 2016 · The massive movements of people, fueled by the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, has put migration at the top of the global human rights agenda. According to a recent United Nations report, international migrants – those living in countries other than where they were born – reached 244 million in 2015, a 41% increase from 2000.Those numbers include 20-million refugees – broadly defined as ...
FACTSHEET: South Africa’s official poverty numbers
WEBFeb 15, 2018 · Over half of South Africans live below the upper-bound poverty line, but the figure varies by province. The Eastern Cape had the highest share of poor residents at 72.9%. Limpopo was marginally lower at 72.4%. Gauteng province had the lowest share of poor residents. In 2015, 33.3% of people who lived there were poor.
Did over 100 million people die under communism during
WEBSep 5, 2019 · A meme that has been shared over 100,000 times on Facebook claims that communism is “the ideology that killed over 100 million the last century”. The meme includes pictures of Mao Zedong, the former leader of communist China, the hammer-and-sickle symbol of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and a pile of human skulls and bones.
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 ...
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