South Africa’s president signed the Basic Education Laws Amendment bill into law, despite fierce opposition from critics.

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IN SHORT: The video shows Akothee promoting a supposed joint pain remedy linked to a Kenyan doctor. But it is another deepfake video spreading health misinformation. A video circulating as an ...

Africa Check is a non-partisan organisation that exists to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa, so raising the quality of information available to the public. Set up in 2012, we ...

IN SHORT: A video is doing the rounds on social media with the claim that it shows Nigerian police beating hungry people. But it was filmed in the city of Abidjan in Ivory Coast. In December 2024, 67 ...

IN SHORT: Several Facebook posts are advertising what they call a “thyroid and goiter tea” and claim that it can cure an enlarged thyroid gland. But this is not true – see your doctor instead. A ...

IN SHORT: Old claims from 2023 have resurfaced in January 2025, repeating news reports that the South African government had imposed new race-based regulations on exports that would devastate the ...