Anim van Wyk

In an employment plan presented to a recent G20 summit in Australia, the South African government claimed that young black women make up 37.5% of unemployed South Africans aged between 15 and 34, and white men 31.5%.During the summit in Brisbane - where leaders of the G20 nations committed to increa...

Does South Africa employ more civil servants than the United States of America, a country with one of the largest economies in the world and a population of 319 million?The claim crops up frequently in tweets, blog posts and comment pieces.Even Business Times columnist Stephen Mulholland weighed in ...

Do around 40,000 white families own 80% of the land in South Africa?It is a claim that has been widely circulated since Andile Mngxitama, a Member of Parliament and “commissar for land and agrarian revolution” with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), raised the issue in an open letter to busine...

Were two mermaids killed in the controversial "fire pool" ofPresident Jacob Zuma’s home in Nkandla and taken to a research facility in Durban? A picture posted on the EFF Supporter website- sourced from Nigerian website Gist Us- shows two female figures, lying head to snake-...