There’s no denying that murder rates in South Africa are high. But two bold claims published by the Guardian still caught our ...

Zille clashed with radio host Anele Mdoda, making claims about water infrastructure. We tested them for accuracy.

DAKAR. Ariel Gbaguidi, a journalist from Benin’s La Nation, won the award for fact-check of the year by a working journalist ...

IN SHORT: A Facebook post claims there is footage of South Africa’s ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, falling to his death from a hotel in Paris, France. But the thumbnail of the supposed video is ...

IN SHORT: A viral image appears to show a New Vision newspaper page with a headline claiming that Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, “plans to lose the election”. However, the page is fake ...

IN SHORT: A statement supposedly from Kenyan politician Gideon Moi demanding that media house Standard Group stop criticising the government in its reporting is fake. “With the new understanding ...

IN SHORT: Two viral images appear to show the Standard newspaper calling former deputy presidents Rigathi Gachagua and Kalonzo Musyoka a “deadly infection” and an “evil opposition”. However, the ...

IN SHORT: A photo of former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga on a hospital bed has gone viral on social media in October 2025, with users claiming he is critically ill. However, the photo is from ...

IN SHORT: In September 2019, Nigerian police rescued over 300 people from a supposed Islamic school after its operators were accused of torture and abuse. Social media posts claiming the incident took ...

“Is Johannesburg, seriously, the largest man-made forest in the world?” It is a question Talk Radio 702 host Jenny Crwys-Williams put to Africa Check's Southern Africa Editor, Julian Rademeyer, during ...

IN SHORT: A video which has gained popularity on various social media platforms in early 2024 is a doctored version of a 2009 interview in which Eminem made no mention of South African politics. A ...