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‘A time of crisis’: fact-checking South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2023 state of the nation address

By: Africa Check     13th February 2023 President Cyril Ramaphosa’s seventh state of the nation address eventually took off, having been bogged down by numerous points of order from the... 

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"Why is the IFP under attack"

9th February 2023 "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots" Napoleon Bonaparte I was reminded of these words when I saw... 

Africa Check

2022 Sona promises: South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa zero for two on state utilities Eskom and Transnet

By: Africa Check     9th February 2023 South African president Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his annual state of the nation address (Sona) on 9 February 2023. Themed #LeaveNoOneBehind,... 

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‘Fraudulent and misleading’: why pricey herbal mix touted as a remedy for HIV falls flat

By: Africa Check     6th February 2023 “We would like to share with the world about the discovery of the HIV cure”, begins a lengthy post on Facebook by the Neem Foundation, a... 

Africa Check

‘Nothing under this government’: fact-checking five claims about record of Nigeria’s governing APC party

By: Africa Check     3rd February 2023 With just three weeks left until Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has sought to gut the record... 

Accountability Now

What must be done to counter corruption in SA effectively?

3rd February 2023 There is a global problem concerning the levels of corruption in the world. Transparency International produces an annual Corruption Perception... 

CDE executive director Ann Bernstein

State of the Nation Address 2023: Ramaphosa no longer a credible reformer

1st February 2023 Prior to the annual State of the Nation Address, the head of one of the country’s leading think tanks, the Centre for Development and Enterprise... 

Centre for Development and Enterprise head Ann Bernstein

Fresh strategic thinking is needed to get the country back on track

30th January 2023 South Africa is a country with enormous potential. It was always going to be a hard place to govern after centuries of discrimination and 48 years... 

Africa Check

‘Almost double the world average’? Debunking government claims about water use in South Africa

By: Africa Check     26th January 2023 As South Africa enters its 16th year of the rolling power outages known as loadshedding, some provinces also face an unreliable water supply. Over... 

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Electricity and loadshedding

23rd January 2023 Antonio Gramsci had it right: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a... 

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