IN SHORT: A message circulating on Facebook and WhatsApp claims that Sasol is accepting applications as part of a large learnership and training programme for 2025, with stipends of up to R15,000 and ...
IN SHORT: According to several Facebook posts, Nigeria’s senate president Godswill Akpabio told US president Donald Trump to focus on the US instead of Nigeria. But the state attributed to Akpabio has ...
Anambra’s 2021 governor election saw issues related to administration and security, and electoral malpractice in the form of ...
A photograph of a woman dressed in orange struggling with another woman in police uniform has been widely shared in South ...
BREAKING: Tanzanian Opposition Leader Tundu Lissu has won his treason case against the Government. The Supreme Court of Tanzania has acquitted him of all ...
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 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: Don’t believe this video claiming to have a cure for diabetes. Its home remedies are nothing new and not effective. While diabetes can be managed in various ways, it can’t be cured. “Say ...
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 ...
IN SHORT: Videos promising a 'new secret investment' project by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, have several visual, audio and contextual clues that the clips are deepfakes. South Africa's public ...
Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other low-effort forms of information deception. Human rights organisation Amnesty International ...
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 ...