Facts in Q&A format

In 1953, Professor ZK Matthews, then leader of the ANC in the Cape, proposed that a Congress of the People be convened to draw up a Freedom Charter.

The Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955 by the Congress of the People – a gathering of more than 2,800 delegates, representing numerous…

According to the World Health Organization’s data, South Africa’s drinking population consumed 28.9 litres of pure alcohol per capita a year, the fifth-highest consumption rate in the world. This was below Namibia (31.3 litres), Eswatini (32.7 litres), Cook Islands (32.9 litres) and Tunisia …

Since 1994, the government has delivered over 4.7 million housing opportunities.

No. An article on the website Ihlaya News reports that the University of Venda is planning to introduce a course on witchcraft that will include classes on “lightning” and “thunder”.

The article was flagged as possibly false by Facebook’s fact-checking system. But it’s not false - or true. It’s…

The South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded 7,833 sexual assaults in 2019/20. This is a 3.7% increase from the number of offences in 2018/19 which was 7,557.

 

More: FACTSHEET: South Africa’s crime statistics for 2019/20

There is no data available on the current number of Covid-19 cases in Pretoria, but according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, as of 2 March 2021 there were 405,035 confirmed cases in Gauteng.

The Gini coefficient is a globally used measure of inequality, among individuals or households within an economy. The coefficient ranges from 0 to 1, where 0 represents perfect equality (all individuals have the same income) and 1 indicates perfect inequality (where one person has…

In 2018, the World Bank estimated that South Africa’s Gini coefficient was 0.63 in 2015. This was based on individual consumption – one of the ways to measure income inequality. 

It put South Africa at the top of a list of 164 countries.

However, some countries do not have the data…

The crime detection rate indicates “the successful investigation, positive identification, arrest and charging of the perpetrator”.

The detection process covers the period from when a police docket is opened until a suspect has been arrested and charged, or until the docket is closed as…