Newly released vital statistics from South Africa are raising urgent questions after the country recorded an unprecedented rise in deaths in 2021, the same year COVID-19 injections were aggressively rolled out nationwide.
According to official data, South Africa experienced a 19.6% increase in deaths in 2021 compared to the previous year.
The spike in mortality was seen across all age groups that were eligible for vaccination, with only one exception: children and teens under the age of 19, a group that was largely not included in the early vaccine campaign and did not show the same surge in deaths.
The stark correlation between widespread mRNA injection campaigns and the sharp rise in deaths has sparked renewed calls for independent investigations into potential vaccine-related toxicity and long-term adverse effects.
The data, drawn directly from the South African government’s own reporting, points to a disturbing timeline: as COVID-19 injections ramped up, so did mortality rates, contradicting initial claims that the vaccines would reduce serious illness and death.
Critically, the increase in deaths did not occur in 2020, the year COVID-19 first spread globally. Instead, the surge came in 2021, after the vaccine rollout began.
Analysts note that this pattern mirrors findings in other countries where early 2021 vaccine campaigns were followed by unexplained increases in all-cause mortality.
The fact that children, who were not widely vaccinated during the same period, saw no similar spike only strengthens concerns that the rise in deaths may be linked to vaccine uptake, rather than the virus itself.
South Africa’s 2021 death spike is now part of a growing body of global evidence suggesting that the real story behind the COVID-19 vaccine campaign is far from settled.
The Republic of South Africa has a current estimated population of 64.7 million. The 2024 mid-year life expectancy at birth was estimated at 69.2 years for females and 63.6 years for males, with overall life expectancy estimated at 66.5 years. Death reports refer to total deaths and natural deaths, with an average of 10.4% of deaths being non-natural (i.e. due to external cause: homicide, suicide, medical error, alcohol intoxication, drug overdose).
I accessed two sources of vital statistics. Statistics South Africa has provided annual birth data to 2023, and annual death data, including by age-breakdowns, up to 2021.
South African Medical Research Council (“SAMRC”) provides epidemiological week (“epi week”) death data with estimated weekly deaths from 2015 to 2019, and actual and predicted deaths, with age breakdowns from 2020 to 2024.
All figures provided in this report reference the data source. Note that there is expected under registration of death data; however, the data is certainly adequate to show trending over the pandemic years.
All data are raw counts for births and deaths with no adjustment for under-registration.
(Note: 1 SAMRC Burden of Disease Research Unit and UCT Centre for Actuarial Research)
COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout in South Africa
South Africa started its national vaccination programme against COVID-19 on 17 February 2021. Dosing remained at < 1% of the population until 21 May 2021 before administration ramped up.
Population uptake increased to 44 doses per 100 people (25.4% of the population) by the end of December 2021.
The latest available dosing data showed 67 doses per 100 people by September 2023, with some 33.72% of South Africans having been given COVID-19 vaccines.
The COVID-19 vaccination programme started with healthcare and frontline workers and then expanded to those over the age of 60.
Vaccines were launched for the education sector on 23 June 2021. Covid-19 vaccines were ultimately offered to all South Africans aged 12 and older.
The main vaccines used in South Africa, outside of clinical trials, were Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) and Pfizer-BioNTech. 33.7% of South Africa’s population had taken the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2022.
South Africa’s third wave of COVID-19 deaths exactly matched the ramping up of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the second half of 2021.
South Africa Vital Statistics
The annual birth and death data for StatsSA are set out. Births have been steadily declining over time, with a 37% drop between 2004 and 2023.
This drop may decrease with the compilation of late-registered births. Deaths show an undulating line, with a sharp rise in deaths in 2020 (+9.8%) and 2021 (+19.6%).
StatsSA provided 5-year age breakdowns of deaths from 2018 to 2020.
This shows a decrease in deaths in persons aged 34 and younger in 2020 but an unprecedented rise in deaths across all ages in 2021.
SAMRC separates weekly deaths into total and natural.
This figure sets out weekly deaths from 2020 epi week 1 to 2024 epi week 52.
The data plotted by week and year makes the extraordinary deaths in 2020 and 2021 abundantly clear.
Total and natural deaths are shown in separate plots.
Deaths were far higher in 2021 (+19.6%) following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines than they were in 2020 (+9.8% vs. 2019), which also had unprecedented death levels.
Deaths by age are set out. These figures use both StatsSA and SAMRC age data to show trends since 2015 and up to 2024.
While figures don’t exactly match, due to late registrations for StatsSA, the trends agree.
Lower than typical deaths in young persons in 2020 and catastrophically higher deaths in 2021.
Infant and young child deaths rose above even 2021 levels in 2022, while deaths dropped off in all other age groups.
The following are the epi week natural deaths by age group for 2020 to 2024.
The small marker indicates the start of the COVID-19 vaccination rollouts.
The big marker indicates the ramp-up when dosing ramped up and first exceeded 1% of the population.
Note that the death spike is broader (more deaths), concurrent with the COVID-19 vaccine ramp-up up than the first two COVID-19 death waves.
People up to 19 years of age don’t show the distinct death spike following rollout that is observed among older cohorts.
The correlation between COVID-19 vaccine dosing ramp-up and the extreme spike in deaths in 2021, with a smaller spike extending into 2022, should be examined for causation, particularly in relation to which vaccines were administered when.
The extreme peaks in deaths, across all COVID-19 vaccinated ages, raise the spectre of possible vaccine-related toxicity.
Similar excess deaths matching the timing of COVID-19 vaccines are apparent in many countries around the world.
The Philippines experienced hyper-excess deaths exactly matching the rollout of the COVAX-provided Janssen vaccines.
Despite mounting global data raising red flags, public health authorities have yet to provide clear explanations for these statistical anomalies.
Instead, governments and pharmaceutical companies have largely dismissed any connection between COVID-19 injections and excess mortality.
Critics argue that such dismissals ignore the basic principles of public health transparency and scientific inquiry.
If the shots were safe and effective, as originally promised, officials must explain why the death toll surged only after they were widely administered, and why children, who were mostly unvaccinated at the time, were spared from this surge.
As more nations release mortality data, patterns like those seen in South Africa continue to emerge, patterns that demand a full investigation, not silence.
Seems the jab part of the global genocidal agenda is partly effective