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How safe is South Africa over December? The bad news is that cases of armed robberies, burglaries, murder, attempted murder and serious assa...

The runner-up of the first African Fact-Checking Awards recently spoke at an international conference in Mozambique about the challenges of

Edem Srem, winner of the first African Fact-Checking Award, reflects on “Trading Ghana’s Water for Gold”, an investigation into claims by G

On a trip to Buenos Aires and Nairobi, Africa Check’s executive director experienced first-hand how fact-checking is growing in Latin Americ

Recently we teamed up with Lawyers for Human Rights to host a live Twitter Q&A session about the new Zimbabwean Special Dispensation permit

Given the scourge of corruption in South Africa, it is critical that the police reported more detailed statistics on the various crimes that

Bad and incomplete data bedevils African statistics. Seventeen African countries have not conducted a census in the past decade and five hav...

The panic over Ebola is more dangerous than the disease itself. And it is not likely to kill you. Take this from a self-confessed germaphobe

When news websites appropriate news photographs as catch-all illustrations they lie to their readers and show contempt for news photographer

We should look back at our recent history if we want to understand the extent of violence and crime in South Africa.

Looming amendments to the Ministerial Handbook and cost cutting measures announced last year are meant to curb the worst excesses of some of

Horribly flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on SA's white right to prove their thesis that black men ar