Amid a surge in anti-migrant sentiment, we test three common narratives driving South Africa’s migration debate against the ...

IN SHORT: Claims that South Africa’s election commission is offering a “2026 recruitment intake” through dodgy-looking links on Facebook are scams. Be wary: legitimate IEC vacancies will be posted to ...

IN SHORT: A fabricated screenshot circulating on Facebook falsely claims Uganda’s chief of defence forces announced on X that he had overthrown his father, president Yoweri Museveni. There is no trace ...

A car crash on a major highway in south-west Nigeria that injured world-famous boxer Anthony Joshua and killed two of his close associates drew global attention in late 2025, renewing concerns about ...

One of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals is that people of all ages live healthy lives. A reduction in the adolescent birth rate is seen as one measure of progress on this. But teenage ...

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 ...

Two claims about the size of the South African Police Service. The numbers cited by Cele for 2010 are largely correct – there were just under 194,000 SAPS officers, close to Cele’s “195,000”, making ...

In mid-2025, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) updated how it calculates gross domestic product or GDP, changing the base year from 2010 to 2019. Even so, the new figure fell short of ...

The hunting of a black rhino in Namibia, the illegal killing of a lion in Zimbabwe and a controversial “driven hunt” in South Africa’s Limpopo province have ignited a fractious debate about trophy ...

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 ...

1.1 How many pupils qualify for university study? Replacing South Africa’s senior certificate in 2008, the national senior certificate now serves as South Africa’s major school-leaving qualification.