COMMENT: South Africa's poverty and income statistics fall victim to Covid-19
With South Africa’s government forced to review its budget due to the pandemic, an already cash-strapped Stats SA has had to cut a vital pov...
Help us find Twitter impersonators
If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck … it might be someone impersonating a duck on Twitter. Here’s how to spot a tweeting imposte...
ANALYSIS: Mapping, understanding & preventing xenophobic violence in SA
In an open letter to the South African president, one of the country's big labour unions and an organisation representing African migrant co...
COMMENT: Wrong rape ‘facts’ flourish in a knowledge void
Most of the information shared about the extent of rape in South Africa is unsupported. Kate Wilkinson looks at why wrong rape “facts” flour
COMMENT: Stats needed to shed light on SA’s xenophobic violence
Many civil society organisations will use South Africa’s soon-to-be-released crime statistics to inform their work. But the African Centre f...
COMMENT: We agree you should check Africa Check reports (and explain how, too)
Holding up to scrutiny the claims made by leading figures and institutions, such as the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), is the basis of
COMMENT: Politicians and police are misusing unrest figures
Senior police and politicians in South Africa are distorting police data, with implications for budgets and the right to protest, University...
COMMENT: No accurate statistics for corruption in South Africa
Given the scourge of corruption in South Africa, it is critical that the police reported more detailed statistics on the various crimes that