REVIEW: 10 hoaxes that fooled the African continent
“Out of Africa, always something new,” the worn-out expression goes. But f you applied it to these 10 hoaxes and fakes, they would have fool
“Out of Africa, always something new,” the worn-out expression goes. But f you applied it to these 10 hoaxes and fakes, they would have fool
With the country’s general election less than 90 days away, the political ramifications of a cocktail of fake news, misinformation and propa
In a parliamentary debate, two different rates for the number of people murdered on farms in South Africa were mentioned. But experts say th...
South African president Jacob Zuma again referred to stress as “a white man’s disease” recently. Does medical research prove stress affects
A recent article suggested that single South Africans can live longer by getting married, based on Statistics SA mortality data. Petrie Jans
Today fact-checking organisations around the world are celebrating the inaugural International Fact-Checking Day. Africa Check marked the oc...
In 2017, the City of Cape Town renamed a square to honour a black South African who assisted with the experimental work that preceded and fo...
South Africa’s highest court last year roundly rejected the role of credible data in determining whether law is constitutional. Meghan Finn
In an open letter to the South African president, one of the country's big labour unions and an organisation representing African migrant co...
Senior researcher Kate Wilkinson lists her top three discoveries from the United Nation's Data Forum hosted in Cape Town last week.
Demography is regarded as the most quantitatively strong discipline in the social sciences but there are limits to what can be known and mea
Inside a research centre in Tanzania, scientists are testing new methods to stop a quickly changing foe.
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