As public hearings to select the next UN secretary-general approached, a dubious poll placed the ex-Senegal president as the ...

The landed cost – the largest single component – covers the international purchase price of fuel, the exchange rate used to ...

The South African Police Service records statistics on sexual offences against victims under the age of 18. In 2024/25, a ...

A politician and a bureaucrat sparred, reigniting a common complaint that in Kenya, fuel prices shoot up fast but barely come ...

As in other places, fears in South Africa centred on the use of “deepfakes” to share “highly realistic fake videos or audio recordings”, as the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa ...

A newspaper ad made two shocking claims about how many women would be raped in their lifetime, and how few rapists were convicted for their crimes. There is too little data available to conclude that ...

Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...

“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 ...

After a boy with down syndrome died following a policing incident, an image making several claims about the South African police was shared online. Its figures for torture, assault and death at the ...

As one of South Africa’s most pressing problems, rape levels in the country get discussed and reported on often. And as a result, many of the statistics used cross our desks here at Africa Check.

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 ...

As white South Africans made headlines for entering the US as refugees, online claims about their contribution to farming back home went viral. But much like the refugee narrative itself, any numbers ...