Ahead of the final in-person voter registration weekend, we explain how local elections work and why your vote matters.

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: Viral posts are claiming that European countries have banned travel from South Africa in response to anti-migrant action, using a clip of president Cyril Ramaphosa as evidence. But as of ...

Free money? As we’ve said before, if it sounds too good to be true, it often is. The suspicious Facebook posts typically include text similar or identical to: “Go2bank is giving $1000 automatically ...

A meme that has been shared over 100,000 times on Facebook claims that communism is “the ideology that killed over 100 million the last century”. The meme includes pictures of Mao Zedong, the former ...

IN SHORT: South African telecommunications company MTN is not offering a “Ramadan gift” through dodgy online links. Posts making this claim are looking for reach. The message includes a link to a ...

A screenshot shared widely on Facebook in South Africa claims recently appointed US vice president Kamala Harris was once a “high-end call girl”. The Afrikaans caption to the post reads: “Een van die ...

IN SHORT: Unicef, the UN agency responsible for children, has issued a scam alert about this fake “promotion” circulating in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania from a non-existent “Unicef Foundation”. Nearly ...

IN SHORT: Several Facebook posts claim that “all vaccinated persons” are no longer classed as human, according to the United Nations and the US supreme court. But the claim is false and has been ...

What has become known as the Phala Phala scandal has followed South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa through his second term in office, drawing in some of South Africa's most powerful institutions ...

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 ...