During its 2014 election campaign, the African National Congress promised to enrol a record number of students in TVET colleges. Five years later we check if they kept their word. Researched by Naphtali Khumalo & Kate Wilkinson
They promised big changes. Have they carried them out? The African Election Promise Tracker shows progress made to date.
We’re said to live in a post-fact world, where there are no longer any gatekeepers of truth. But it’s more a world of openly free-flowing fact and fiction, sorted by new and more transparent gatekeepers – the fact-checkers.
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Are 60% of South Africa’s vocational colleges dysfunctional? 
No, Kenya’s capital Nairobi doesn’t rake in KSh10bn a year from Murang’a water 
Do half of men and a third of women in South Africa smoke? 
Yes, Nigeria is the world’s ‘highest producer of HIV-infected babies’ 
Yes, China is Kenya’s biggest trading partner – but it’s not a balanced trade 
Does Gauteng make up a third of South Africa’s GDP? And is it Africa’s seventh biggest economy?