Anim van Wyk

In South Africa, fake news websites are mushrooming. How do you recognise a fake news story and what can you do to stop these websites? Anim van Wyk provides some tips.

Social media’s favourite boy is a Ghanaian child called Jake Amo.A picture of the earnest little boy drawing in his school in the village of Asempanaye has been used to draw laughs about everything from buying a car to applying for a job.It was taken in August 2015 when artist Solomon Adufah taught…

“DAD IS BARELY 15 AND MUM IS JUST 12!”In trademark tabloid style, South Africa’s biggest-selling daily newspaper reported last week on the pregnancy of a 12-year-old girl from Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Her parents thought she had been raped before discovering their daughter had consensual…

Rolling black-outs in 2008 and the need to tackle the country’s large carbon footprint have compelled South Africa to prioritise renewable energy.Starting in 2011, the country invited independent power producers to sell electricity to the country’s power supplier, Eskom.South Africa’s President…