USAID head overshoots gains on getting more kids into school
The U.S. Agency for International Development's new head said in a speech that there are half as many children out of school today as there ...
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Are Liberian girls more likely to be wives than literate by age 18?
Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist Tina Rosenberg has claimed that a Liberian woman is more likely to be married by 18 than to know ...
Where are the receipts for 795 schools Zuma says SA government built?
South African president Jacob Zuma claims government has built 795 schools since 2009. Is there evidence to back this up?
Do 7 million SA girls miss school every month due to lack of sanitary pads?
Since 2014, various people have claimed that 7 million girls in South Africa are missing school every month because they don’t have access t...
No data shows 1 in 10 African girls miss school because of menstruation
A number of small studies have been conducted in African countries on the effect of menstruation on girls’ school attendance. But the situat...
Mantashe’s reported no-fee school claim not supported by data
Are 87% of South African students in no-fee schools? Or is it 87% of high school students? Both these claims were attributed to the ruling p...
Zuma’s ANC birthday speech: 6 claims fact-checked
Cake was cut and songs were sung at South Africa’s ruling party’s 105th birthday celebrations on 8 January. This factcheck investigates six ...
Reality check: Are SA pupils the ‘most bullied’ in the world?
South African pupils are “the most bullied kids in the world”, according to the country’s education minister. The Africa Check team sharpene...
Facts or alternative facts? Zuma's 10th State of the Nation Address checked
Africa Check sorted fact from fiction in the tenth State of the Nation address South Africa's President Jacob Zuma delivered.