Multiple versions of the same claim, that an opinion poll has been conducted showing popularity rankings for Chebunyo ward in Kenya’s Bomet county, are circulating online. Bomet county is in the Rift ...
IN SHORT: An image circulating online appears to show the 12 January 2026 edition of the Standard newspaper, while its headline claims former deputy president Rigathi Gachagua has been “staging ...
A video of former US president Barack Obama speaking passionately about democracy has been circulating online since November 2025. In the video, Obama says: We have to stop pretending that countries ...
IN SHORT: The Facebook page uses the name and logo of Watu – a renowned asset finance company operating in Kenya – to offer Kenyans new and used motorbikes on credit. Do not fall for these offers, as ...
While widespread antiretroviral treatment has drastically changed the lives of people with HIV, there is still no cure for the virus which infects an estimated 38 million people worldwide. Expensive ...
South African billionaire Johann Rupert, US president Donald Trump (May 2025) There is no evidence to back billionaire Johann Rupert’s claim that undocumented foreigners are mainly behind farm murders ...
A video circulating on social media claims that South Africans will soon have “zero right to self-defence” from home invaders, should proposed changes to the country’s trespassing law come into effect ...
When a KwaZulu-Natal municipality introduced an academic bursary for young women who can prove that they are virgins it caused an uproar earlier this year. Each time, the same questions arise. How is ...
Africa’s most populous country holds elections – including for president – in February 2023. So far, we’ve spotted 10 types of false information in the campaigns. Published on 10 January 2023 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Are there really 400,000 “poor whites” living in abject poverty in squatter camps across South Africa? Are there 80 white squatter camps in the Pretoria area alone? These are the figures cited in a ...
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