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but that same day, 9th june, the local government tweeted a statement, saying they had checked, but none of the hospitals in the province, public and private,have any records of such a delivery in their facilities . doubts were growing for other reasons. the pretoria news itself reported two different hospitals as the place where ms sithole gave birth. this is one of them steve biko hospital but another mediclinic medforum hospital was also named. neither offered records to confirm the story. by this point, scrutiny of the story was intense. on 17june, the iol website, which includes stories from pretoria news, published an article saying it had investigated. and it had found that ms sithole delivered the babies at steve biko academic hospital in pretoria.