
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...
In two Youth League-branded posters circulated widely on social media in South Africa, claims are made that eating alkaline foods and inhali...
Since 1990, the share of foreign-born workers in South African restaurants has risen from just two in 10 to “almost 100%”, finance minister ...
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...
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.
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...
The people of Johannesburg, South Africa, regularly complain about the potholes on their roads. A business news site says there are 48,000 p...
Do president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims in his delayed address to the country stand up to close scrutiny?
During recent protests in Nigeria, social media users compared the cost of the national assembly to the health and education budgets.
Citizen TV, Kenya’s most-viewed TV station, recently claimed on its website that the country last posted two consecutive quarters of negativ...
Ahead of the US election, an analysis by South Africa’s Mail & Guardian newspaper claimed that the US president has been disengaged with Afr...
Official records show 800 children die from ‘hunger’ in South Africa each year. But while experts agree this is an undercount, it is difficu...
Parliamentarians recently debated farm murders in South Africa. We looked into a startling claim made by an opposition MP.