No, Britain’s land laws no model for expropriation in South Africa – monarch doesn’t own ‘all the land’ Does the British monarch own all the land in England? John Hlophe, the parliamentary leader of ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
A newspaper ad made two shocking claims about how many women would be raped in their lifetime, and how few rapists were convicted for their crimes. There is too little data available to conclude that ...
South Africa has three poverty lines, which represent different degrees of poverty. They were first published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) in 2012. The poverty lines were based on spending ...
In recent years, the UK’s Oxford Internet Institute has tracked the manipulation of public opinion online. Since 2018, South Africa has featured on a growing list of countries where social media is ...
IN SHORT: The Trump administration is considering adding 36 countries, including Nigeria, to the US travel ban list. But the US president hasn’t labelled the West African country a threat to global ...
The media has featured a steady stream of articles and think-pieces about artificial intelligence in 2023, as new AI-powered tools launched and became easier to use. But we’ve taken it back to basics ...
A recent report published on the website of SW Radio Africa stated that “it is believed” there are “between two and three million Zimbabweans living and working” in South Africa. Citing interviews ...