At a recent men’s summit, South Africa’s deputy president quoted several statistics on the violence suffered by women and children. In a fact-check in progress, we look at the first of five claims.
The UN estimates 117% rise in killing of women in South Africa since 2015
Source: Al Jazeera’s Inside Story (August 2018)
117% is from data now withdrawn by Stats SA
South Africa has the third highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide, losing about R2.2 billion a year in cyber attacks.
Source: Timeslive (June 2018)
No reliable data exists to support these claims.
About 70% of the people in Nigerian prisons have never been convicted of any crime
Source:
ThisDay newspaper (March 2018)
Prisons service doesn’t have data on how many have been guilty of another crime before
South Africa ranks among the world’s worst three countries – after the US and Russia – for serial murders and rapes.
Source:
SA Sunday Times newspaper
(March 2018)
No reliable database compares serial murder & rape internationally
"Every 30 seconds a child is stolen in South Africa"
Source:
Facebook post
(Jan 2018)
If true, million children would be kidnapped per year
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