Ousted Nairobi governor wrong to say Kenya president has borrowed ‘over KSh8 trillion in eight years’
Following a cooling of relations between former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko and president Uhuru Kenyatta, Sonko took to social media to list...
ANC Youth League promotes debunked steam and pH ‘cures’ for Covid-19
In two Youth League-branded posters circulated widely on social media in South Africa, claims are made that eating alkaline foods and inhali...
‘Almost 100%’ of restaurant workers in South Africa are foreign? Official data disproves finance minister Mboweni’s claim
Since 1990, the share of foreign-born workers in South African restaurants has risen from just two in 10 to “almost 100%”, finance minister ...
No full South African matric rewrite due to paper leaks, varsity acceptance unchanged
Some matric exams were leaked in late November 2020. But there's no truth to social media claims that final-year high school students will h...
Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress
Did the 2020 state of devolution address stand up to close scrutiny? We’ve had to wait for the data, but the verdict is in.
15 million ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa? Herman Mashaba wrong again
Working out the exact number of undocumented migrants in South Africa is complex. But the most recent data on the topic does not support the...
48,000 potholes on Johannesburg’s roads? That’s not nearly the whole story
The people of Johannesburg, South Africa, regularly complain about the potholes on their roads. A business news site says there are 48,000 p...
Fact-checked: Kenya president’s 2020 state of the nation address
Do president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims in his delayed address to the country stand up to close scrutiny?
#EndSARS protests: Comparing Nigeria’s health and education spending to cost of lawmaker upkeep
During recent protests in Nigeria, social media users compared the cost of the national assembly to the health and education budgets.
Kenya’s last economic recession was in 2002, not 1992 as major TV station claimed
Citizen TV, Kenya’s most-viewed TV station, recently claimed on its website that the country last posted two consecutive quarters of negativ...
Donald Trump’s ‘foreign policy’: Fact-checking US$166 bn China-Africa trade claim
Ahead of the US election, an analysis by South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper claimed that the US president has been disengaged with Afr...
No evidence nearly 7,500 children die from ‘hunger’ each year in South Africa
Official records show 800 children die from ‘hunger’ in South Africa each year. But while experts agree this is an undercount, it is difficu...