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 ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: Africa Check has investigated many malicious schemes offering fake jobs. This is yet another one, impersonating a Dubai prince on Facebook. A post on Facebook, dated 2 June 2023, reads: “12 ...

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 ...

IN SHORT: Claims that a message about US president Donald Trump’s arrest will “attack your bank account” are false. Scammers cannot hack your bank account via a text message. But it’s still important ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...

IN SHORT: We’ve seen plenty of misinformation and conspiracy theories about billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, particularly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is yet another one – that ...