COMMENT: Lifestyles of South Africa's rich and elected
Looming amendments to the Ministerial Handbook and cost cutting measures announced last year are meant to curb the worst excesses of some of
Looming amendments to the Ministerial Handbook and cost cutting measures announced last year are meant to curb the worst excesses of some of
Horribly flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on SA's white right to prove their thesis that black men ar
A hate speech complaint lodged against Africa Check earlier this year was little more than an attempt to harass, intimidate and stifle debat...
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So it’s official. The long overdue and widely anticipated GDP revision in Nigeria has arrived. And it was certainly worth the wait. It is bi
Africa Check decided to have a little fun today, trawling newspapers and news websites for the best, and worst, April Fools' Day news storie
Most of us like to think that we are capable of making rational decisions.
The Swazi government routinely claims that the kingdom adheres to the “dictates of true democracy”.
You would think that a political party that regularly boasts about its successes on Twitter would have the evidence to back up the claims.
In a recent column, the editor of South Africa's Business Day newspaper, Peter Bruce, claimed that sugar kills more South Africans than HIV/
Africa Check Director Peter Cunliffe-Jones explains why we have joined with the AFP Foundation, the media training arm of the AFP news agenc
Aiming for 100% matric pass rate would be truly misguided, argues economics and education researcher Nic Spaull. Rather, we should look to F
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