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| - Fact Check: Cape Town video showing giant waves crashing down on cars is at least 6 years old
India Today, in its investigation, found that the video has been on the internet since as early as 2017.
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India Today Fact Check
While the video was indeed from Cape Town, it has been on the internet since as early as June 2017. It has nothing to do with the recent floods in Cape Town.
Heavy rains recently wreaked havoc in Cape Town and some parts of the Western Cape in South Africa. Reportedly, at least two people died and thousands were displaced in the region.
Amid this climate catastrophe, a video of giant waves crashing down on cars passing by a seafront road has been widely shared on social media. Allegedly, this video was taken at the Sea Point in Cape Town on the morning of June 20. The archived version of a similar post can be seen here.
India Today found that the video in question is over six years old, and is not related to the recent floods in Cape Town.
WHERE IS THE VIDEO FROM?
To confirm whether the video in question was from Cape Town, we tried to geolocate it. Thirty-nine seconds into the video, we noticed a yellow board with “Rawson” written on it. We searched for stores or businesses named “Rawson” located near the sea in Cape Town and found one that fit the bill on Google Maps.
“Rawson Properties” located on Beach Road in Green Point, Cape Town, looked similar to what we observed in the clip.
We compared the viral video with the Google Street View of this location and found several similarities, including multiple storefronts, a roundabout, trees, and railings. Thus, it became clear that the video was indeed from Cape Town.
IS THIS VIDEO RECENT?
With the help of a reverse image search, we found the same video shared as early as June 2017 on social media. “Watch this guy drive into the worst winter storm in Cape Town in 30 years. 8 dead, thousands displaced,” read a tweet from June 8, 2017, that contained the video. The same video was also uploaded on a YouTube channel in September 2017.
In June 2017, South Africa’s Cape Town was hit by the worst winter storm in three decades. Following the storm, several people died and thousands were displaced in Cape City. We were not able to independently verify whether this video was indeed from the 2017 storm. However, it was clear that the footage is at least six years old and therefore not from the recent floods in Cape Town.
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