We tracked seven promises South Africa’s ruling party made in its 2014 election campaign five years ago, based on their potential impact on people’s lives and the data available. Only one was kept.
You are four times more likely to have your gun used against you than be able to use it successfully in self-defence.
Source: Gun Safe Cities, July 2019
There is no recent, reliable data on the topic.
One in four South African employees have been diagnosed with depression.
Source: Fin24
Study cannot be generalised to the South African workforce as a whole
Michael Duerr owns 57.5% of the South African Reserve Bank.
Source: Frequently shared Instagram post
Duerr owns 10,000 – 0.5% – of the bank’s 2 million shares.
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.