How much schooling time did South Africa’s kids lose to Covid? Probably a year
Following almost two years of disruptions to South Africa's school calendar, what has been the impact of Covid-19 on education in SA?
Fact-checked: Viral social media posts about Russia, Ukraine and Africa
Like all major breaking news events, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has generated plenty of misinformation.
LOCAL ELECTION FACTSHEET: Poverty in South Africa
We unpack how poverty is defined in South Africa ahead of the November local elections.
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...
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...
Minister said only 120,000 pupils passed South Africa’s 2020 matric exams? No, results not yet released
Did South African basic education minister Angie Motshekga say “700,000 learners wrote grade 12 exams and only 120,000 learners passed?
No full South African matric rewrite due to paper leaks, varsity acceptance unchanged
Facebook message claims that universities are no longer accepting current matric students due to leak of exam papers, we checked the claims.