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Africa Check
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🔍 Africa's first independent fact-checking organisation in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria & Senegal. Get the facts: africacheck.info/m/fact-check-HQ
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    Africa Check
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    Jun 5
    📣 The Africa Facts Summit 2026 takes place in Johannesburg 🇿🇦 on 21 and 22 October. 5th edition 🌍 AI disruption. Disinformation. Public trust under pressure. ➡️ Collaboration on information integrity is critical. africacheck.info/summit_2026 #AfricaFactsSummit2026
    Africa's premier information integrity summit returns to Johannesburg in October 2026
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    Africa Check
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    Sep 4, 2019
    ⚠️ Be careful before you share a video or picture of #xenophobic violence in #SouthAfrica. Many of them are from unrelated incidents. bit.ly/2Ut45i1
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    Nov 14, 2017
    [UPDATE] Social media’s favourite little boy - Jake Amo from Ghana - is ‘doing wonderful’. More here: bit.ly/2yBs9Un
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    Apr 1, 2023
    🚱 Water consumption by consumers in Gauteng is not particularly high. The bigger challenge is the large volume of water that leaks from the distribution system of the dilapidated water infrastructure and does not reach consumers.
    Gauteng’s water use above world average? Minister rehashes flawed statistics about South Africa’s...
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    Africa Check
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    Jul 10, 2021
    This picture shows the N3 west in Durban #KZN in September 2020. See here: africacheck.info/3wwK37V Don't be fooled by out of context images. Here's our guide to verify images on your phone: africacheck.info/2OKTLTD
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    Dudu “Grenade” Zuma-Sambudla
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    Jul 9, 2021
    Durban City, We See You! Amandla ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽!!! #FreeJacobZuma
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    Africa Check
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    Feb 14, 2023
    It’s election season! Challenge yourself with our quiz to see how clued up you are about this year’s general elections in #Nigeria. ➡️ Click the link to test your knowledge. africacheck.info/nigeria_electi… #NigeriaDecides2023
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    Mar 28, 2019
    Yes, @Our_DA *did* inherit a deficit of over R1 billion in #Tshwane municipality after taking over from @MYANC. And they *did* accumulate a surplus one year after being in office. We rate this claim as correct: bit.ly/2TFZwPo
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    Africa Check
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    Nov 10, 2021
    To highlight #unemployment in #Kenya, pan-African media house @africanews tried to work out how many young people are unemployed. We checked two claims the pan-African media house made.
    Data doesn’t back media claim that Kenya has East Africa’s highest youth unemployment rate of 38.9%
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    Africa Check
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    Oct 10, 2022
    🇿🇦 No, Eskom, Vodacom and South Africa’s government do not employ thousands of foreign nationals as claimed in a widely-shared message.
    Thousands of migrants have jobs in Eskom, Vodacom and South Africa’s government? No, viral message...
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    Africa Check
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    Nov 29, 2022
    🇿🇦 How much South Africa’s members of parliament earn is always a hot topic. Here’s a closer look at the salaries and perks of the job. #membersofparliament #mps #southafrica #benefits
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    Africa Check
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    Nov 23, 2022
    Tshepiso may have just fallen for a job scam. How should she verify whether the ad for employment at KFC is real or not?
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    Africa Check
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    Oct 5, 2020
    Did you know? We send a weekly WhatsApp tip sheet to journalists in #SouthAfrica, #Kenya and #Nigeria. Send us a WhatsApp message to receive it: bit.ly/32MuR9V
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    Africa Check
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    Mar 1, 2023
    Have #Kenyan government officials been claiming for more than 20 years that a third of the country’s budget is lost to #corruption? And does #Kenya collect more revenue than Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi combined? We took a look at the claims.
    A third of Kenya’s budget stolen? We checked former senator’s claim about much-travelled corruption...
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    Africa Check
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    May 12, 2020
    📵 A voice note being shared in #Nigeria claims that it wasn’t #COVID19 that caused recent unexplained deaths in #Kano state, but 5G wireless technology. This is FALSE. bit.ly/3fJ5pra #CoronaVirusFacts