Even the BBC sometimes gets it wrong
“Amazingly, even the Beeb can get it wrong!” writes Gill Moodie on her blog, Grubstreet, which carried our recent report on sharks.
Africa Check in the news
Africa Check editor interviewed on Talk Radio 702
Check out Julian Rademeyer talking to Jenny Crwys-Williams on Radio 702 on Monday 6 May.
Public claims against police exceed R14bn – Mail & Guardian
The Mail & Guardian follows up Africa Check’s report that police face R14-billion in civil lawsuits, not R7-billion as reported by South Africa’s police minister.
New website aims to separate truth from fiction
In the latest instalment of her “Backstory” series for Journalism.co.za, Gill Moodie takes a look at Africa Check.
Checking the facts in Africa – DW Akademie
DW Akademie, the media development division of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster, profiles Africa Check’s work.
Incorrect HIV figure reported – SAPA
The South African Press Association follows up our report and corrects their own.
Media get it wrong on SA schoolgirls’ HIV statistics – M&G
Good piece here in M&G – using our report.
Drug survey not reflective of SA – Daily News
The Daily News used our report on drug use.
No evidence for Sky claim women drink to harm babies and collect benefit – Big Issue
Spreading the word. Big Issue SA ran our report on the claims that women are drinking deliberately to harm their unborn children in order to claim disability benefit.
Buffalo City named most unequal in world – Daily Dispatch, Eastern Cape
See our report used in this front page article from the Eastern Cape newspaper Daily Dispatch, 5 December 2012.
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For democracy to function, public figures need to be held to account for what they say. The claims they make need to be checked, openly and impartially.
Africa Check is an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results.
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