Education
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.
#EndSARS protests: Comparing Nigeria’s health and education spending to cost of lawmaker upkeep
A graphic circulating compared the national budget for healthcare and education to the cost of maintaining the national assembly.