Spot Checks

No, South Africa hasn’t scrapped your right to self-defence – old trespassing claim resurfaces

South Africa’s roads worst in the world to drive in? Not so fast

No evidence governor of Nigeria’s Ondo state, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, plans to increase varsity fees after election

Nigerian presidential aide wrongly claims inflation has fallen during Bola Tinubu’s first year in office

Headlines that Covid has re-emerged in Nigeria’s Benue state misleading, health officials say

Access to electricity higher than 36% in 1994, despite claims by South Africa’s ruling party

Less than 12 million South Africans on social grants, not 18 million as often claimed

No evidence for Kogi governor hopeful’s claim that state has Nigeria’s largest uranium deposits