Established in 2017, the Africa Facts Network is a growing community of 58 fact-checking organisations working across more than 35 countries on the continent. From North to South, East to West, and ...
In 2025, Africa Check investigated over 20 scams circulating online in Nigeria, from Facebook pages impersonating popular commercial banks to fake money-doubling investment opportunities. The risks of ...
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 ...
Claims that South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo or even India can lay claim to the unwanted title of "rape capital of the world” have been doing the rounds for well over a decade. In 2000, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
South Africa’s Road Accident Fund has paid out R18 billion to non-citizens from 2019/20 to 2023/24. Various public officials, media and members of the public (since May 2024) Collins Letsoalo, then ...
“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 ...
South African politicians and the public alike are quick to make claims about migrants to the country. But stereotypes about criminality and draining the economy are not supported by the available ...
South Africans have in recent months debated changes proposed by the police ministry to the country’s main firearms law. A “gun-related death” is any death from a gunshot wound, Prof Daniel Webster, a ...
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