IN SHORT: A viral video of Sheikh Gumi, a popular Nigerian Islamic cleric, saying the government should give bandits whatever they want and include them in the budget is manipulated. In the genuine ...
“Hippos are the mammals that kill the most people in Africa, yet their diet consists of only grass,” reads a meme going around Facebook in South Africa. “If hippos don’t kill people for food, why do ...
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 ...
When a KwaZulu-Natal municipality introduced an academic bursary for young women who can prove that they are virgins it caused an uproar earlier this year. Each time, the same questions arise. How is ...
When a photograph of President Jacob Zuma supposedly dancing up close and personal with singer Babes Wodumo popped up on social media in 2016, gleeful South Africans shared it far and wide. In fact, ...
How many adolescents have mental illness? And how many get the care they need? A South African news article’s statistics may be outdated and from another country, but its message rings true: mental ...
IN SHORT: A disturbing video of two naked women being assaulted by a group of men has been circulated widely on social media, with the claim it shows South African women killed by Nigerian men. But ...
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, ...
If it’s a big and important issue, be cautious about what you share or see shared on social media. Big news events inevitably generate floods of false social media reports – or claims, posts, videos ...
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In 2016, and for many years before that, South Africa has been placed on stage 6 of Genocide Watch’s “Ten Stages of Genocide”. This stage - called polarisation - is followed by the stages of ...
IN SHORT: HIV/Aids can’t be cured, but can be treated and managed with antiretroviral drugs as a chronic disease. Claims that there is a “cure” for the human immunodeficiency virus, such as the ...
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