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HEALTH CHECK: Beware of social media posts promoting rooibos tea as a ‘cure-all’
According to the internet, one of South Africa’s favourite beverages, rooibos tea, can cure many ills. But are these claims accurate?
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...
Are caesarean sections in Nigeria ‘far below’ the international rate, as newspaper claimed?
To save lives, a national daily made a case for more caesarean sections in Nigeria, arguing that the rate of the surgeries was lower than th...
Fact-checking 5 claims about Nigeria’s ‘second cervical cancer wave’
Africa’s most populous nation is experiencing an increase in cervical cancer cases because of the Covid-19 pandemic, said a prominent oncolo...