IN SHORT: The Facebook page uses the name and logo of Watu – a renowned asset finance company operating in Kenya – to offer Kenyans new and used motorbikes on credit. Do not fall for these offers, as ...

Despite the hype around artificial intelligence, the bigger threat in Africa remains “cheap fakes” and other low-effort forms of information deception. Human rights organisation Amnesty International ...

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 ...

As one of South Africa’s most pressing problems, rape levels in the country get discussed and reported on often. And as a result, many of the statistics used cross our desks here at Africa Check.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has been previously sanctioned in the UK for Covid-19 misinformation, but has made new claims about cancer, vaccines and the Pope’s death. We investigated. The pastor advised ...

Two claims about the size of the South African Police Service. The numbers cited by Cele for 2010 are largely correct – there were just under 194,000 SAPS officers, close to Cele’s “195,000”, making ...

Attacks on people living and working on farms and smallholdings in South Africa are a topic of emotive debate. The terms “farm attack” and “farm murders” are popularly used to refer to “certain crimes ...

If it’s a big and important issue, be cautious about what you share or see shared on social media. Big news events inevitably generate floods of false social media reports – or claims, posts, videos ...

Under the guise of tetanus vaccination, the Unicef and World Health Organisation is supposedly conducting a “mass sterilisation exercise” in Kenya. Or so a French content aggregator of health ...

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 ...

Do around 40,000 white families own 80% of the land in South Africa? It is a claim that has been widely circulated since Andile Mngxitama, a Member of Parliament and “commissar for land and agrarian ...

IN SHORT: An online message from 2021 has resurfaced in Kenya claiming that all WhatsApp calls will be recorded, social media monitored, and that “devices will connect to the ministry system”. But ...