No, South Africa didn’t deploy 70,000 soldiers during Covid-19 lockdown
Several news sites have unfavourably panned the recent deployment of ‘a mere’ 2,500 soldiers to deal with recent unrest.
Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
A member of management for the Afrikaner-rights group AfriForum rubbished the state of South African education. We sorted the wheat from the...
FACTSHEET: Excess deaths in South Africa explained
The number of excess deaths may be a more accurate and concerning measure of the Covid pandemic than the daily death toll. But how are exces
FACTSHEET: How deaths are recorded in South Africa
Covid has trained a spotlight on causes of death and how deaths are recorded across the world. We disentangle what paperwork has to be filed...
No, your life insurance is not ‘null and void’ if you get a Covid-19 vaccine
Experts say recent claims that getting the Covid vaccine will render your life insurance policy invalid are false and scaremongering.
Debating the state of South Africa: did members of parliament get their facts straight?
Was there a 64% drop in gender-based violence in 2020? Will half of grade 1 pupils never make it to their school-leaving exams? We check the...