No data shows that 800,000 Nigerians live in South Africa
As xenophobic violence rears its head again in South Africa, a widely quoted figure of how many Nigerians live in South Africa is completely...
media
Buhari's claim untrue: Journalists are being detained & harassed in Nigeria
While a speech of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was read claiming that no journalist was being detained in the country, reporter Jaco...
Opinion poll does not reveal real extent of child rape in Nigeria
A recent opinion poll in Nigeria reveals more about a growing awareness of child rape in the country, than it does about the true extent of ...
Why fact-checking matters
From the embattled streets of Ukraine or Egypt to the voter lines at elections in South Africa, fact-checking matters. Africa Check's direct...
Media reports exaggerate the number of Zambian and SA women who binge drink
Media reports grossly exaggerate the percentage of South African and Zambian women who binge drink and The Times repeats an old, false claim...
Why it's wrong to call South Africa - or any country - the world's 'rape capital'
Where is the “rape capital of the world”? Is it South Africa or the Democratic Republic of Congo? What does the phrase even mean? A reader a...
Claim that you don't need pills to treat depression is misleading
You don’t need pills to treat depression. That is the startling claim made recently in the lifestyle section of a prominent South African ne...
From Tanzania to Swaziland - HIV cure claims false until proven effective
From Tanzania to Swaziland, newspapers continue to report breakthrough "cures" for HIV/AIDS. As the world marked World AIDS Day yesterday, A...
Police wrong to claim that crime index ‘vindicates’ official crime statistics
Amid mounting controversy over the accuracy of official crime statistics, the South African police have claimed that an index compiled by in...
How many Zimbabweans live in South Africa? The numbers are unreliable
How many Zimbabwean nationals live in South Africa? Estimates range from one to three million. But as Africa Check discovered, the numbers c...
Zuma's claim that SA is one of only 12 countries with safe tap water is untrue
President Jacob Zuma has claimed that South Africa is "one of only 12 countries where tap water is safe to drink throughout the country". T...
How South Africa's department of basic education is misleading the public
The department of basic education claims to be replacing a “mud school” a week in South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province. At face...