Between the 1st of April 2018 and June 2019 there were 2,162 fraudulent marriages.
Source: Minister of home affairs Aaron Motsoaledi (June 2019)
Out of 2,132 marriages reported as fraudulent,1,160 were removed from records.
Two claims about the state of policing in South Africa checked.
Source: Bheki Cele (June 2019)
One mostly correct and the other unproven
"One in three South African women buy skin bleaching creams."
Source: Unreported World documentary (January 2018)
There isn't enough data on skin bleaching in South Africa.
South Africa has 3.7 million orphans
Source: Cadbury South Africa (May 2019)
There are 2.3 million orphans, and 374,520 have lost both parents
How many registered voters didn’t turn up? What was striking about the youth vote? We pull up a few numbers from the 8 May election.
For every one professional immigrating to South Africa, eight are leaving.
Source: Johannes Wessels, director of the Enterprise Observatory of South Africa (April 2019)
No publicly available data proves or disproves claim.
Two claims on housing in South Africa
Source: President Cyril Ramaphosa and local media
Both incorrect
Does South Africa spend five times more on healthcare per person than Nigeria? Does one doctor serve 16,000 Kenyans? We’ve put together some startling facts from our work on the continent.
Foreign nationals living in South Africa are again fearful of attacks by locals. But widely shared images and videos falsely captioned as xenophobic violence only get in the way of solutions.
In Tshwane, the DA inherited a deficit of over R1 billion from the ANC and turned it into a surplus in a year.
Source: Mmusi Maimane, leader of South Africa’s official opposition (February 2019)
Excluding grants from national government, Tshwane had a deficit in 2015/16 and a surplus in 2016/17.