As president Cyril Ramaphosa and members of parliament debated the state of the nation, various figures were shared to show ...

Established in 2017, the Africa Facts Network is a growing community of 58 fact-checking organisations working across more ...

President William Ruto has tied his economic legacy to building Kenya. But some of the figures used by minister John Mbadi ...

IN SHORT: A document circulating on Facebook claims Rwanda has severed diplomatic relations with the United States after sanctions were imposed on Rwanda’s military. But a government spokesperson says ...

South Africa has three poverty lines, which represent different degrees of poverty. They were first published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in 2012. The poverty lines were based on spending ...

Do 80% of South Africans regularly use traditional healers? And are sangomas the first point of medical contact for 80% of black South Africans? It is a claim that crops up with some regularity but is ...

Attacks on people living and working on farms and smallholdings in South Africa are a topic of emotive debate. The terms “farm attack” and “farm murders” are popularly used to refer to “certain crimes ...

“Is Johannesburg, seriously, the largest man-made forest in the world?” It is a question Talk Radio 702 host Jenny Crwys-Williams put to Africa Check's Southern Africa Editor, Julian Rademeyer, during ...

30,000 children “trafficked” into the sex trade every year in South Africa; 30,000 children “currently” being prostituted in South Africa. Human trafficking is rife in South Africa, if recent press ...

IN SHORT: We’ve seen plenty of misinformation and conspiracy theories about billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, particularly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is yet another one – that ...

A Facebook post shared in Kenya and Nigeria advertises a remedy it claims will help women who “don't ovulate, and have unhealthy eggs and have been facing difficulties in conceiving”. It advises women ...