The media organisation said Rampedi followed the story for many months after he was introduced to Sithole and her partner, Tebogo Tsotetsi in December 2020 by members of the church they all belonged to.
On June 7, Sithole was admitted to Steve Biko Academic Hospital and, in the evening, she delivered 10 babies – seven boys and three girls. It is our understanding that doctors, who had been expecting eight babies, were surprised by the delivery of 10. “Following the news of the birth, Survé Philanthropies made a commitment of R1 million to support the couple and their babies, and Mr Rampedi arranged for the father to travel to Cape Town to thank Survé Philanthropies in person, for their donation.”
The GPG, the Department of Health, as well as the CEO of Steve Biko Academic Hospital have all made statements on various platforms that there was no evidence of Sithole having given birth at any private or public hospital nor could they find her or the babies. The Gauteng government and the CEO of Steve Biko Hospital intimated that the story of the decuplets birth was a hoax, that news of such births was false and that she, Ms Sithole needed psychiatric help.
“This information is corroborated by several independent sources, including staff at Steve Biko Academic Hospital,” the media organisation said. 1. Did they know that Gosiame Thamara Sithole was admitted at Steve Biko Academic Hospital on 7 June 2021 and had given birth that evening? 7. What is their response to allegations that the hospital was wholly unprepared for this unprecedented birth?
“Worse still, Ms Sithole was pressured by hospital authorities to say she was not at Steve Biko Hospital. Ms Sithole has suffered trauma and shock - physical and psychological - following her treatment at the hands of both hospital and government authorities.”
The truth will always come out
◇23 Jun◇ So there's no Thembisa 10😐
Confidential, privacy - bloody!!!!!
Bored with this Yes they have No they haven't Sounds like lines from a pantomine
Tilly_Tetelo taba ela a še, e buile
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Imagen them not even being ready for such a birth, all suspected multiple deliveries are referred to tertiary hospitals the mother would have been long admitted there. She wont even go via a clinic.
The Tembisa 10 is fake news. A woman who gave birth vaginally and then it turn into a cesarean section will not be able to walk around ,looking for the premature babies. These premature infants if delivered alive will be in an neonatal intensive care unit
If the babies died... I believe there will be a cover up.
This is scary now!
Baphi abantwana?
Can we now stop talking about this story....it's got no value. People are still unemployed
fakenews
So far, the government, through Masina, have confirmed the existence of the Tembisa 10. The mother confirmed this too. Babies r at NICU ward. Very sensitive case...we must afford them their privacy until they are out.
The word 'mammoth' got me🙄🙄🙄 FAKE!
There are 2 names that carry no credibility in SA, Rampedi and Igbal Surve, so why should people believe this story? Neither has the mother got credibility given pregnancy with a married man. Morality problem.
I want to see the cushion used to imply an impending multi-birth.
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Whatever man, we don't give a fuck anymore.
May we please have pics of the scans then as the article mentions that there were scans
Expose wena Piet... Hope the babies are safe
Since they have been tracking this story since last year, can we see the scan that they saw to confirm that the lady is pregnant with 10 babies? I would think such a celebrated journalist would have on record concrete proof of such.
kamo_marven I’m so tired of this story. Yoh hah ah
What do DOH gain by concealing the birth of thembisa10. This actually raises their profile and image.
You must be arrested for embarrassing the country and bringing the journalism profession into disrepute. pietrampedi
A mystery indeed
Mxm we are tired of this lie 🚮 it should not be given attention
😂😂😂😂. Rest Piet.
Has *anyone* actually seen the babies or is it all based on the mothers WA messages? Simple question...
After reading this article I'm now convinced that there never were 10 babies in the first place. Independent media are just trying to protect their image by prolonging a non existent issue.
Why all this Tembisa 10 story does not appear at least on TV
Haai,i just remembered Melusi when he said that belly of pregnant woman was not real🤦♀️🤦♀️
Milking a stone.
Where’s the proof you misguided fools
This story is boring us now. Frankly we don't care now
Prove it
SA journalism at it best again. All these reporters are unemployable!!!!
Lord....this is the most boring story, and constantly getting so much media attention..... can we move on pls!
This is a joke, right?
Use the name piet rampedi please
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More propaganda. Remember, IOL is part of Independent Media which is owned by the corrupt Iqbal Surve, a man whose company’s bank accounts were frozen by banks themselves due to illicit activity. How does the 10 babies story translate to a cover up of “mammoth proportions”? Hmm?
I said this before, these people may go as far as killing those babies just to prove that they Piet is reporting fake news 😭😭😭
The best thing about this story is that it has reminded me of an old film called 10. There was something about that film that stuck in my mind. I think it was the music. Bolero. Time to watch it again maybe.
You guys are chasing TheBabylonBee hard! Keep it up
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Piet in the article you saying department of health must tell you were are these babies but yesterday in those videos Sithole the Mother said she knows where the babies are and akase bantshe 🙄🙄🙄
And pigs really can fly, its just the Dept of Transport that has prevented the evidence being shown!
Wild.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why bother with an independent investigation? The mother can just show her 10 babies and that's it. If she now suddenly claim babies are missing with no previous suggestions of that nature, I will do battle to be convinced.
Oh fckoff....
Hawks must now appoint themselves and investigate this matter. If there are babies surely they will be found somewhere and if there are no babies someone must go to jail for all the false accusations and the anxiety they have caused ME. Taba e ya bana gae nrobatse
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower, they go tunneling way beyond the bedrock
Very soon they'll start accussing Cyril and WMC of stealing the babies, it's going there.
She first mentioned, Medforum then Louis Pasture, now Steve Biko. Are we expected to believe this nonsense Even the father of the 'babies' himself is doubting the story...Piet is trying too hard....
This story is lucrative to SA media shame
The only e evidence that is missing int this story are records (1.Maternity recod- which is patient kept, 2. The doctor whom they were visiting during pregnancy ultrasound etc.)I hear what Piet, mother , father and Independent Media are saying. All
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This is real vele
Your story is all from the Mother's texts. What did you investigate? Sonar-nyana ge?
Come on
Our government is failure
Do we still have SAPS?
sephiritsikeli This lady for someone who gave birth recently and to 10 kids she’s recovered so quickly ngalama ups and downs akhe
It's difficult to believe anything Government says about Tembisa 10 , after all these are the same hospitals that incorrectly amputate people who are there for a different operation
IOL Independent Only Lies Where is the proof?
Eusebius doubling down hard!!! 😳
Give up on the joke already now mate😡.
🎵The more you wiggle, the deeper you sink🎵
So now to cover up the fake story you are shifting the blame on the DOH.... Tsek maan, just say you were duped and we all move on
Reading the story is like rewatching Inception hoping to understand.
Damn...... you tweet this: 'cover up'... for real🤣
Enough IOL & fokof now. Outchea toying with us😖😩
IndWorldThinker The kids must be having names by now🤪🤣🤣🤣
Even though there is an independent media to investigate about this tembisa 10 saga as I went through to your statement, there is still some missing information from the investigator. Please start again and come with a concrete information, go deeper and come wit a fish.
Lol u got served 😄
Anything is possible in South Africa, hospitals supposed to have working cameras to confirm if the lady was there that the CEO of the hospital has been implicated she / he must sue them if they are lying.
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What Piet left out is for the Law enforcement to take him, his Newspaper and Independent media to task for misleading the Public with Fakenews. Independent Media is pits !
I feel sick... 🤮🤮🤮🤮 Soon we are going to hear that these babies died in hospital and there was a cover up. This storyline is going there. That's the only way you are going to kill this scam instead of admitting that you failed at your job. You are evil.
If the staff can vouch that the she was admitted and gave birth then coming out publicly and admitting even with complications would have been understandable now all they do is deny deny deny
Le raloka ka rena lena
Any woman that heavily pregnant would not be sitting with her arm on the sofa. She would have her hand cradling the underneath of her belly.
This story is such a bore….the next thing we will be told that these babies have died and there won’t be any proof citing religion
I think Gaunteng Health authorities are covering up their mess of great proportion here, Piet we are waiting for you to expose them. All they know is to dig 1m graves for people of GP.
church members and journalist see a story 7 months before the babies. He abused his wife and her child, they learn of this narcissism at new years eve as he kicks them on streets from her own home, for affair. Psychological projections 🙉🙈🙊psychiatric help needed, so much trash
Now I'm really confused.
I feel stupider for having read that.
From mediclinic to Pretoria Hospital. Where were babies born?
What does this mean?🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️?
die keiser is kaalgat
How bizarre that the Mali mother of 9 says scans could only detect 7 babies and were then surprised when she had 9. Tembisa10 mother also claimed doctors didn’t see two of her babies. 🤔 Coincidence? Copycat? Truth?
Ag give it up Piet. . .
We done with this story... next ☺️
If what you’re implying is true - that the babies might’ve all died as a result of negligence - why hasn’t a case been opened with police? If the babies are simply ‘missing’ why hasn’t a missing persons’ report been opened? How can this carry on for so long without resolution?
Did the babies die hle?😭
Maybe just maybe one day will actually investigate leads and report based on fact not with egg on their faces SA_Mum
Look here guys simple: is there 10 babies or not?
So, I just need to check… multiple government departments, private hospital groups, the head of a state hospital, a poor, presumably unsophisticated, black woman, and the *other* media, have all conspired to deceive Piet Rampedi and IOL? Mmm. Not convinced.
In the interview Piet did yesterday, the mom said she knew where her babies were and they are safe. Now there's stories of negligence haii na re lapile with this endless story that has so many twists and turns.
The 1st person tht cums into mind is TheRealClementM instead of dng the real journalism we know him of, he has becum smthng else bt part of the SANEF cabal.....We need answers and TheRealClementM must know tht Gauteng gorvenment under david makhura killed mental ill patients
Huh🤨
Hayibo, now you want the department of health to answer questions that should be directed to you? You are the ones with the exclusive story. You should be telling us. You say medical staff were threatened to not reveal details about the babies? Come on, guys...
Somethings deserve a full-stop even in the middle of the sentence. We get it. You can stop now.
Guys, please respond to this STORY. If you don't respond, they will say you killed the so called babies. To dismiss as Fake News is not enough, these people are trying to undermine our Gov. SAPoliceService DrMokgethi KwaraKekana GautengHealth LeratongH EkurhuleniDist1
That story of a doctor requesting some secrecy is raising eyebrows 😶Why would a practitioner do that, why don't you start there, get full history of her visits during 🤰😶Any scan-nyana during her pregnancy? Can she show us a C-section wound, sure it's still fresh☠☠
Should you not be asking yourselves as to why a Tembisa resident travelled all the way to a Pretoria hospital when there’s a hospital in Tembisa? Alternatively is she in possession of a referral letter from Tembisa hospital to Steve Biko Hospital?
Nice spin IOL
This is just heart breaking to read 💔, and these scoundrels SAEditorsForum use their resources to settle scores with Piet instead of helping the situation.
This story is not true we still waiting for the proof if you still hitting around the Bush then it's a lie.
Rest.
What on earth is happening here?
Who wrote this rubbish? Why are they scared to put the Author on the article? It seems Piet is tired on the embarrassment. I think it is time Piet and his partners to be charged for fraud. We are tired of entertaining this joke everyday
All it takes is a photograph of the babies. If Independent Media is in contact with the mother as it states in the article, then why no photo of the babies?
We found out before she gave birth so how did he honor their wishes?How were doctors surprised by the 10 babies when scans had allegedly shown this before? No man guys . Just no!
Survé's Independent Media has about as much credibility as Tokyo Sexwale's missing 15 trillion billion million Rand.
Okay pietrampedi ... let's get into this....First things first. Who drove her from Tembisa to Pretoria? Who is the doctor that told them they were expecting 8 babies? Have you seen the records? Why was it necessary for her to go to Pretoria and not give birth in Tembisa?
Piet we know you are the one who wrote this article. You logged into the work computer and are yet again trying to dig your way out of quick sand . 😬😬😬😬
iol is a fake news channel, lie after lie after lie, give it a rest😂😂🤣
Trying hard ne.
This is stupidity of huge proportion. I think these guys must just hang their heads in shame. Soon will be blaming WMC...🤣🤣🤣
What is “other departments” why can’t they name them? As if there were many departments who confirmed their bullshxt! Lol. By “other departments” they mean the Mayor of Ekurhuleni? Mnci!
Number of excuses by Piet: Hundred and eleventy Number of decuplets pictures: zero
are they still 😂
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The very questions you ask in your numbered list are what we've been asking since the 1st report of the births. But we were all told we must shut up and wait and not be jealous of Piet and his scoop 🙄🙄
This is getting bizarre 😳
Such an event would be considered a huge success by the Medical team. Even if some babies are more ill than others or some are conjoined. It's natural & normal. There is no cover up here.
Man people are dangerous. Here's a guy, with a proper track record on breaking legit stories, telling them there's a cover up, that there's more to it. Same people who sobbed at the Life Esidimeni story, are now like, 'c'mon, why would they' Are you lot mental? Honest Question.
😂😂😂 chosi ngantsomi.
Ao Modimo!
check mate!! SANEF & karynmaughn
It's fake news by New Age wannabees and mini gupta surve
He banna. Imagine delivering 5 babies vaginally and another 5 via caesarian section. Why on earth would any obstetrician do that? What BS!!!
Mfanzodlan_m Hhay stop it now. Let's just forget about this whole thing and let us all move on🙄it's boring now
This story is tiring now
Piet knows his followers very well... Such a predictable angle... They already falling for the conspiracy.
The hole you are digging for yourselves are getting deeper..... pietrampedi IqbalSurve aka LOL
Mxm stop irritating us piet, you think this is a banana republic where every propaganda can fly
This level of disrespect to a person's intelligence is one deserving a Guinness Record, my head is spinning. TF!
I knew it
Haisuka wena Maaaan
Labora waitsi
What a tragic story! It’s shocking that most people don’t believe it.
kulanicool 😂😂😂
I am no longer interested in this story.
If it was a cover up MbalulaFikile would have told Somizi already
Nna I believe there are babies because no one has said infact she was not pregnant 🤰 or how many babies she was expecting. It’s a long way from saying there were not 10 babies to saying there are no babies. The doctor who the lady was consulting during the pregnancy must speak
R we ever going to see the end of this If there were indeed babies born this would've been proven by now N the one who reported this scoop has he seen the babies?
'She was given no food, no support, no post-natal medical care, and no counselling after an unprecedented birth. Any birth can be difficult, but that of delivering 10 babies is exceptional and should have been suitably prepared for,”. Iyoh 😥😥😥😥😥 PietNeverLies
At this point I wouldn’t even believe if they showed the babies.
Piet just give it up
Gauteng Health authorities 👀what the hell is going on?
This story is going to make me lose my mind. I keep checking and then it just becomes more and more stressful. I don't even know why I'm so stressed about this 😭😭😢😢😢😢
“By IOL” can the editor / author of this article stand by it with their name?
the thing we blacks are fools the parents or alleged parents would be awaiting their day in court if the statement or storyline was not true... justsaying
They say,'when your inside a hole,you should stop digging', but you prefer to dig yourselves deeper in.
In you pietrampedi I believe sir. Am wondering how is SAEditorsForum and ThumaMinaMediaGroup reaction after reading this? Planning counter or accepting? Trap dem Piet.
The cover up involves the mother? She said no one will force her to reveal the location of the babies angithi
What exactly would the purpose for this grand cover-up be?
Even if they steal babies ,10 pho? 😂😂
I still can’t get why would a birth be kept a secret, more so, a birth likely to make a global history? Additionally, I don’t care what secrecy staff were sworn to, there’s no way everyone would be so co-operative in keeping such a secret.
Stop It ✋
At this stage we all wondering if the couches are even real
If you stand by your story, what’s with all the questions - I’d have expected you to have the answers AND the evidence!
Anismele kancane
Kaaaaaaak
Why is Steve Biko Hosp CEO gaslighting this poor woman? Women go through a lot in life. God's protection over her and her babies.
Yesterday the family was labelled as 'abusers' wanting to hurt the mother. Today, it's a Government conspiracy to cover up the existence of the children. You refuse to prove the existence of these children, you have absolutely no proof. All you have to do is take a pic.
IOL yesterday..Tembisa 10 Mother confirmed her babies is at safe place and doing fine,will shows it to the public at the right time IOL today...Gauteng health dept must tell SA what happen to the Decuplets at the time of birth & the whereabouts of the babies MADNESS
let this story to rest, I do believe it is not fake news , you've proved your point.Allow the family some privacy, In the meantime let's wait for the family to be ready. By the way who writes like that 'vaginal delivery' 😂, too much detail unnecessary detail in the article
My 2 questions: (1) Do we have the doctors scans confirming the conceived babies before birth? (2) Who took the mother to which hospital to give birth? This person's details would be recorded in that hospital. There is no way she could go alone carrying 10 babies.
oh my gosh now i get it... its actually lol news the i is just there cause they dont wanna look like they take 2 many Ls
Just yesterday the lady said she doesn't want to reveal where the babies are, today they are dead or missing and answers need to come from the Hospital and Government? We are not taken serious here.
That boy Piet pietrampedi is a criminal…. Piet is the propaganda machine of the Guptas & Zumas….
Not reliable news paper 🤣
Piet and company please just make it simple for us, just interview and mention the name of the Doctor she used to consult during her pregnancy.
Where are the pictures? Lol 😂
Who are we looking for today, since the mother was found and she knows where the boyfriend and kids are
Let me thul😅😅😅😅😅
Rest. Please.
You can't stop lying neh
5 were born natural birth & other 5 born C-Section …
Just yesterday Sithole said the babies are hidden, today Piet is actually saying the babies died. We are taken for a ride here.
I think they drank too much of indayela from Moria, asazi... Kudlaliwe ngathi
Cover up with a pillow I see
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Now you blame govt. Where are the babies or are you suggesting that govt has taken the babies?
Which Steve Biko hospital? You guys you need psychiatric help. Imagine such a giant lie by a publication company
PietNeverLies ✊✊✊
A picture is worth a thousand words. Show us picture of the 10 babies.
The department didn’t break the story they deliver babies everyday without funfair you broke the story you are a news agency the onus to prove the existence of the ten babies lies with you and you only
I was afraid this story will lead to yet another exposure of ANC depths of corruption, mendacity and murderous negligence. ANCisAcurse
Did the 10 babies die now? What's going on here
I continue to pray for you and with you in this difficult situation. Let your heart not be troubled. Remain righteous Psalms 55:22.. Cast your burden on the Lord,&He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. Follow me, i will follow 🔙
Just take your L and move the f***k on man
Stefano Dimera storyline this one
CoruscaKhaya 😂😂😂😂😂
Seskhathele nguwe noMaSthole!... Akenisishayiseni ngomoya!
You guys have gone mad🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
So what does all this mean? Are the children dead or alive? That's all we want to know.
Stop this nonsense..
I rest my case Piet is something else Stru🤞
tshepaMotshewa Lona le tlo re bhora shame serious.
Piet doing his best to fuel his fake story😂😂😂⛽🤣🤣🤣🤣
What an insult to the SAn public
Shame, cover up for what? Are you trying to redeem yourself? Committing the very same mistake again, investigate first and report to the nation a true version of events.
I know this doesn’t make any logical sense...but somewhere somehow I do feel pietrampedi story is real there are babies. Don’t ask me how...we shall wait and see.
Someone needs to check on Piet, something is NOT okay with him, this is no longer funny to
Hello. Can you please give me a piece job to feed my daughters please. Washing, cleaning etc . My number is: 066 076 9874. I'm begging you. We are in Johannesburg. Please RT
Oooh snap!
Since the ANC came to power, SA is all about cover-ups, deceptions, corruption, untruths, factions and backstabbing. Even the president is guilty of blatant lies. THANK YOU, DEAR LORD, FOR THE DA.
Iqbal drawing more swords
Imagine if it was a white female involved in this story? Image how all media houses would have deployed their investigative journalists to uncover the truth? Imagine how the authorities would be kept on the toes to account? But sadly, black lives come second in this country.
Y'all can't keep coming here with conspiracy theories. I thought your job was to report on facts. Yikes.
Asenimeni nani manje, sazesaluthwala bo. Kunini Tembisa 10 this, Tembisa 20 that. Weee bhatata.
Really.?
Are you not embarrazzed? Let me tell y'all, Twitter will forget about this if you stop talking about it, 2 days tops. I promise you.
Why would gauteng authorities hide this ? 🤔 this is ridiculous
What would the Gov gain from orchestrating a cover up? Are Piet and IOL that powerful to be discredited? Why would they punish the parents of these children like this? I think Weskopies needs to start preparing beds for a few people.
Now Piet Rampedi is trying to go for the conspiracy angle? I still maintain, Piet must just come clean on the Tembisa10. He was either duped, or he tried to manufacture a story. Instead he's just digging a bigger hole for himself.
Tired A&% excuses.
This whole saga is confusing, yesterday The mother was saying she won't disclose where she has kept tge babies, now this article is implying that the babies might be dead due to negligence.
These babies were hidden from the father, media, South Africans, family by the mother. Now all of a sudden, the hospital did something to the kids.
So this is Piet Rampedi attempt of saving face? By telling a bigger lie? In a story full of holes like a mbawula, there is no bigger hole than this one. Doctors believe she's carrying 8 babies but the still go for NATURAL BIRTH? Piet really needs to lie better
The give it up award goes to 🔝
Niphambene straight... niyangxola ngoku... Julle maak n geraas...
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Entlek are there 10 kids found or what?
Keep us posted but how was the mother discharged after only a few days? This isn't normal for anyone who gave multiple births
kabelodick This hole is going to be too deep that the digger will not be able to get out
They all need psychiatric help.
Yirrrr....🥴
There is no Tembisa 10 please
We believe you
We know that but those bunch of losers SANEF got the chance to embarrass themselves
Bruh, the family, the husband can't confirm the babies but wena you can.
Piiiiiiiieeeeeeetttttttt!
Mxcm!
Hahaha! IOL is such a joke! 😂
This ThumaMinaMediaGroup government is awful, I wonder what are they intend to do with the babies 🤔 They buy everything in their way, Judges, Dr's, Journalists everything
You are milking this nonsense of a story Pushing numbers, it's gonna end bad for this lame newsletter
Our public health system is ruthless, it is the Dept of Terror! Obstetric violence is the rule of the day particularly on black women! I have cried listening to countless stories of the pure terror black women have endured! It is the same Dept that has tripped wombs out women!
SANEF is vomiting sanitizer because IOL is incharge of these story of Tembisa10 In PietRampedi i believe
Angsazi.
As i tweeted one day ago that the ground os being layed for niglegence case by GautengHealth
I give up...
😂😂😂Imagine a whole department hiding such a miracle that will bring them huge media attention globally an be regarded as one of the best, do u know what it takes to deliver 10babies at once? Imagine a department hiding the fact that they can compete with the best in the world.
Let the hawks investigate....mos they are used by politicians to arrest wives and girlfriends.
Lol hawu, why would the Department hide this? Hayi, bra Piet and his Independent what what are losing it now
Haibo...
Nonsense what did the social department find when she went to the offices someone is lying in all of this it's annoying same story like gupta and eskom stories
these ANC people, we are in trouble
Babies get stolen from hospitals alot in SA,So it won't be far fetched if the 10kids have been stolen due to Sht hospitals
We are confused,
Enough with this circus now
There you go, what does Gauteng Health stands to benefit? I told Piet this morning that I smell conspiracy being cooked, here you we go.
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Pics or it never happened. We're tired if this confusion.
Ningasiyeli