To Believe or Not to Believe: A Voter’s Guide to Scrolling Through the Bulls**t this Election Season
Regardless of where you are in South Africa, you are likely to be a target of disinformation over the next few months.
Fact-check — Is Jacob Zuma’s MK now the biggest party in South Africa?
Two days after its launch, former president Jacob Zuma’s MK party claimed on Facebook that it had already attracted one million members.
‘This is no game’: Fact-checking Songezo Zibi’s Rise Mzansi election manifesto launch speech
In his keynote speech at the launch of Rise Mzansi's election manifesto, the new party’s leader made several claims about South Africa.
False! The University of Liberia has not changed free tuition policy
False! According to the Vice president for relations at the university, Attrony Norris Tweah, the information is false.
Nigerian diaspora group’s claims on jobs, inflation and national productivity don’t add up
The Nigeria Diaspora Youth Coalition tried to draw attention to the Nigerian economy. It got a lot wrong.
‘For the people, by the people’: Fact-checking 7 claims in Rise Mzansi’s election manifesto
As it set out how it would govern effectively, did the newcomer to South Africa’s political scene nail all of its facts?
Fact-Check — If you don’t vote, is your vote automatically assigned to the ANC?
Voting is one of the few things you can do personally to contribute to the health of democracy. But if you don’t, does your vote end up reco