Amid a surge in anti-migrant sentiment, we test three common narratives driving South Africa’s migration debate against the ...
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 ...
IN SHORT: Three Facebook pages are offering Kenyans motorbikes on credit on attractive terms. However, do not be duped into paying any money – they are all scams. They also require users to provide ...
Half an hour before the start of her session on the day of the conference, University of the Witwatersrand associate professor Marike Venter de Villiers logged on to the link provided. Forty-five ...
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 ...
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 ...
IN SHORT: Facebook pages are advertising an investment scheme called Norland. But be warned, the pages and platform are run by scammers. None of the official pages belonging to the news agencies ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Editor’s note: This is an English-language translation of a report that first appeared in our French-language edition on 19 April 2026. It has been lightly edited for brevity. Read the original here.
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 ...
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