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...
A member of management for the Afrikaner-rights group AfriForum rubbished the state of South African education. We sorted the wheat from the...
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
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...
Experts say recent claims that getting the Covid vaccine will render your life insurance policy invalid are false and scaremongering.
This slogan from a recent protest in South Africa’s largest city may grab attention, but little data there is so far firmly contradicts it.
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...
Did South African basic education minister Angie Motshekga say “700,000 learners wrote grade 12 exams and only 120,000 learners passed?
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