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Fresh strategic thinking is needed to get the country back on track
30th January 2023 South Africa is a country with enormous potential. It was always going to be a hard place to govern after centuries of discrimination and 48 years... →
‘Almost double the world average’? Debunking government claims about water use in South Africa
By: Africa Check 26th January 2023 As South Africa enters its 16th year of the rolling power outages known as loadshedding, some provinces also face an unreliable water supply. Over... →
Electricity and loadshedding
23rd January 2023 Antonio Gramsci had it right: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a... →
Influencer makes misleading claims about presidential candidates’ promises to vote-rich northern Nigeria
By: Africa Check 23rd January 2023 Just over a month before Nigeria's critical February 2023 general elections, campaigners are pulling out all the stops to sell their candidates.... →
Fact-checking Kenyan president Ruto’s first roundtable with journalists
By: Africa Check 18th January 2023 For the first time since he was elected, Kenyan president William Ruto invited members of the media to a discussion at State House, his official... →
Oil, money, guns – fact-checking Nigerian presidential hopefuls’ claims on town hall TV series The Candidates
By: Africa Check 14th December 2022 Campaigns are in full gear as Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election comes steadily into view. The presidential election – and elections for the... →
Young South African men are struggling with mental health issues
7th December 2022 The subject of men’s mental health is one of the most difficult challenges facing society and will continue to face for quite some time. It is... →
Race and private sector ownership in South Africa: three viral claims investigated
6th December 2022 A viral tweet posted in October 2022 has some surprising figures about race and who owns what in South Africa’s private economic sector. It... →
Talking about a Devolution: Getting Passenger Rail Back on Track
6th December 2022 When Statistics South Africa conducted its National Household Travel Survey in 2013, more than 10% of Western Cape households surveyed reported... →
Reality has started to expose short-sighted localisation measures
1st December 2022 Policies reinforce the dominance of incumbents and raise prices The idea of shifting demand away from imported goods in favour of those made in SA... →
