# claims

claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-12-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-12-21T03:06:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have increased the total allocation to our education sector by an additional KSh120 billion this year.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/we-fact-checked-kenyan-president-william-rutos-fervent-defence-his-record-did

title:
We fact-checked Kenyan president William Ruto's fervent defence of his record — did his talking points add up?


text: “Some 42% of foreign investors (6,256) have fled the NSE (Nairobi Securities Exchange).”
claimant: The Weekly Review
claim_date: 2023-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-12-18T10:46:46Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/influential-kenyan-weekly-gave-president-ruto-e-economy-we-checked-four-numbers

title:
An influential Kenyan weekly gave president Ruto an ‘E’ for the economy. We checked four numbers behind the failing grade


claimant: The Weekly Review
claim_date: 2023-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-12-18T10:46:44Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Why are the poor (over 80% living in the hand-to-mouth informal sector or even unemployment) paying higher personal income tax and non-VATs than corporates ..…?”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/influential-kenyan-weekly-gave-president-ruto-e-economy-we-checked-four-numbers

title:
An influential Kenyan weekly gave president Ruto an ‘E’ for the economy. We checked four numbers behind the failing grade


text: “Admission at teachers training colleges has increased by 300% to now 20,456.”
claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Five claims from Kenyan president’s 2023 state of the nation address
review_date: 2023-11-28T09:39:10Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-five-claims-kenyan-presidents-2023-state-nation-address


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Five claims from Kenyan president’s 2023 state of the nation address
review_date: 2023-11-28T09:39:08Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Today, a two-kilogram packet of maize flour is selling at a low of KSh145 and a high of KSh175, depending on the brand you buy.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-five-claims-kenyan-presidents-2023-state-nation-address


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Five claims from Kenyan president’s 2023 state of the nation address
review_date: 2023-11-28T09:39:10Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have scaled up our investment in the healthcare workforce [by] employing 20,000 new healthcare workers.”


text: “56,000 is half the required number of teachers.”
claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying Kenyan president Ruto’s claims on health insurance, teacher shortages and more
review_date: 2023-11-23T07:36:12Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-kenyan-president-rutos-claims-health-insurance-teacher-shortages-and


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying Kenyan president Ruto’s claims on health insurance, teacher shortages and more
review_date: 2023-11-23T07:36:11Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Those at the bottom of the economic pyramid have the least health insurance coverage, which is less than 5%.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-kenyan-president-rutos-claims-health-insurance-teacher-shortages-and


text: “Kenya’s suicide rates exceed rates in India.”
claimant: Daily Nation newspaper
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Does Kenya have one of the highest suicide rates in Africa? What the data says
review_date: 2023-11-15T07:17:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-kenya-have-one-highest-suicide-rates-africa-what-data-says


text: “Africa is the youngest continent in the world.”
claimant: Meg Whitman
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-10-27T10:42:24Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/us-ambassador-kenya-margaret-meg-whitman-loves-muck-around-data-do-her-numbers

title:
US ambassador to Kenya Margaret 'Meg' Whitman ‘loves to muck around with data’ – but do her numbers pass the accuracy test?


text: Kenya spends KSh500 billion on food imports every year.
claimant: President William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-10-20T06:30:24Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenya-president-william-ruto-misses-mark-claiming-countrys-annual-food-import

title:
Kenya president William Ruto misses mark in claiming country’s annual food import bill is KSh500 billion


claimant: Beatrice Elachi
claim_date: 2023-09-11T12:00:00Z
title: Starve a disease to death? Kenyan politician’s fasting advice on national TV is dangerous
review_date: 2023-10-13T05:06:26Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“If you feel you are very sick but you are able to fast even for five days, do that. Because that is how you deny the disease to spread because diseases thrive on what we take in.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/starve-disease-death-kenyan-politicians-fasting-advice-national-tv-dangerous


text: “Out of every KSh10 collected as tax revenue, KSh6 goes towards debt repayment.”
claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenyan president William Ruto right – nearly 60% of country’s tax revenue goes to repaying debt
review_date: 2023-10-12T03:54:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyan-president-william-ruto-right-nearly-60-countrys-tax-revenue-goes


text: “… the telecommunication sector now contributes 16 per cent quarterly to the Nigerian economy.”
claimant: Umar Danbatta
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Has telecoms share of Nigerian GDP doubled in 8 years? Regulator's celebratory claims fact-checked
review_date: 2023-10-11T07:32:58Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-telecoms-share-nigerian-gdp-doubled-8-years-regulators-celebratory-claims


text: Unemployment has decreased “for seven consecutive quarters since 2021”.
claimant: African National Congress secretary general, Fikile Mbalula
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Declining unemployment figures in South Africa are good news, but context, as always, matters
review_date: 2023-09-29T08:08:02Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/declining-unemployment-figures-south-africa-are-good-news-context-always


text: “In 1994, only six out of 10 South Africans had access to clean drinking water …”
claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Part 2: More claims from the ANC’s #2019ANCManifestoReview rally fact-checked
review_date: 2023-09-22T09:43:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/part-2-more-claims-ancs-2019ancmanifestoreview-rally-fact-checked


text: “Almost a billion [people] have no access to clean cooking energy.”
claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: #ACS23: Verifying Kenyan president William Ruto’s claims at Africa’s first climate summit
review_date: 2023-09-21T08:32:33Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/acs23-verifying-kenyan-president-william-rutos-claims-africas-first-climate


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: #ACS23: Verifying Kenyan president William Ruto’s claims at Africa’s first climate summit
review_date: 2023-09-21T08:32:30Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Since 1961, Africa has witnessed a one-third reduction in agricultural productivity due to climate change.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/acs23-verifying-kenyan-president-william-rutos-claims-africas-first-climate


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Part 2: More claims from the ANC’s #2019ANCManifestoReview rally fact-checked
review_date: 2023-09-22T09:43:43Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Today, two out of three South Africans have access to flush toilets, and eight out of 10 have improved sanitary facilities.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/part-2-more-claims-ancs-2019ancmanifestoreview-rally-fact-checked


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: #ACS23: Verifying Kenyan president William Ruto’s claims at Africa’s first climate summit
review_date: 2023-09-21T08:32:34Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“It is not a secret that we [African countries] are paying at least five times as much as the advanced economies to borrow from financial markets.”


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Part 2: More claims from the ANC’s #2019ANCManifestoReview rally fact-checked
review_date: 2023-09-22T09:43:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“When it comes to healthcare, our country now provides more than 50 million South Africans who do not have access to private insurance with public healthcare.”


claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: #ACS23: Verifying Kenyan president William Ruto’s claims at Africa’s first climate summit
review_date: 2023-09-21T08:32:34Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Every year, Africa needs to generate approximately 30 million new jobs to accommodate its rapidly expanding workforce.”


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Part 2: More claims from the ANC’s #2019ANCManifestoReview rally fact-checked
review_date: 2023-09-22T09:43:48Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The number of students funded through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) increased from 480,000 in 2018 …”


text: “More than 16.3 million people are employed in our country.”
claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: #2019ANCManifestoReview: Fact-checking the ruling party’s claims about progress in South Africa
review_date: 2023-09-13T03:08:44Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/2019ancmanifestoreview-fact-checking-ruling-partys-claims-about-progress-south


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-27T12:00:00Z
title: No, a pot belly not a ‘90%’ sign of liver disease – proper diagnosis needed
review_date: 2022-05-27T10:23:49Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The first indication of the fatty and inflamed liver is a potty belle,” reads a poorly written message posted on Facebook in Nigeria. It’s referring to a “pot belly”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-pot-belly-not-90-sign-liver-disease-proper-diagnosis


text: Nearly half of the water distributed through the Nairobi system is non-revenue water.
claimant: Mike Sonko
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nairobi’s water supply: 2 claims about losses & high prices in slums evaluated
review_date: 2018-02-12T13:37:14Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nairobis-water-supply-2-claims-about-losses-high-prices-slums-evaluated


claimant: Twitter
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, volcanic eruptions don’t put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than human activities
review_date: 2023-02-28T13:06:30Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Posts on social media, perhaps as an attempted “gotcha” to those worried about climate change, claim an erupting volcano can put more carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere in 24 hours than humans have in all of human existence. But this is false.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-volcanic-eruptions-dont-put-more-carbon-dioxide


text: “[Kenya] is the largest producer of milk in the continent. We produce five billion litres of milk.”
claimant: Kenyan deputy president William Ruto
claim_date: 2022-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Raila Odinga jets into London, we fact-check Kenyan deputy president’s 2022 Chatham House speech
review_date: 2022-03-16T05:59:59Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/raila-odinga-jets-london-we-fact-check-kenyan-deputy-presidents-2022-chatham


text: Kenya is fourth in Africa and ninth globally when it comes to depression
claimant: Maina Kageni
claim_date: 2021-07-28T12:00:00Z
title: Two claims by popular morning radio show host about depression in Kenya, checked
review_date: 2021-09-08T10:22:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/two-claims-popular-morning-radio-show-host-about-depression-kenya-checked


text: Nigeria's legislator's budget is N125 billion.
claimant: Social media graphic
claim_date: 2020-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: #EndSARS protests: Comparing Nigeria’s health and education spending to cost of lawmaker upkeep
review_date: 2020-11-12T05:52:21Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/endsars-protests-comparing-nigerias-health-and-education-spending-cost-lawmaker


text: The Covid-19 virus cannot survive on an inanimate object for more than nine days.
claimant: Mitumba Association of Kenya
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Can coronavirus only live up to 9 days on objects, as Kenyan traders claim?
review_date: 2020-07-30T12:04:07Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/can-coronavirus-only-live-9-days-objects-kenyan-traders-claim


text: R4.3 billion invested in new car manufacturing plant in Eastern Cape
claimant: SA Presidency
claim_date: 2017-04-12T12:00:00Z
title: Zuma | 7 Claims Fact-Checked
review_date: 2017-05-09T13:08:11Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/president-zumas-track-record-7-claims-about-progress-fact-checked


text: South African citizens’ stress levels up by 56%.
claimant: The Citizen news website
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-16T10:19:41Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-pandemic-raised-south-africans-stress-levels-56-and-cannabis-answer-two

title:
Has pandemic raised South Africans’ stress levels by 56%? And is cannabis the answer? Two claims in news article checked


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-19T12:24:59Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Since we launched the initiative, 699 schools have been provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities and projects and a further 1,150 schools are either in planning, design or construction stages.


text: ‘Rwanda presently has the global highest number of women in parliament at 61.1%.’
claimant: Nnedinso Ogaziechi, spokesperson for the Nkata Ndi Inyom Igbo
claim_date: 2021-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Frozen out? Checking claims about women’s participation in Nigerian politics
review_date: 2021-10-04T05:46:26Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/frozen-out-checking-claims-about-womens-participation-nigerian-politics


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-07T19:32:52Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Over the past five years, we’ve made significant progress with the provision of infrastructure. More than R1.3 trillion has been invested…


text: 80% of schools in South Africa are dysfunctional.
claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
review_date: 2021-06-30T07:43:40Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-9-claims-about-south-african-schools-ernst-roets


text: “I think there are 15 different taxes on fuel.”
claimant: William Ruto, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: From no-shows to walk-outs: Fact-checking Kenya’s presidential candidates debate
review_date: 2022-07-28T10:24:29Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-shows-walk-outs-fact-checking-kenyas-presidential-candidates-debate


text: Inhaling steam ‘paralyses’ SARS-CoV-2
claimant: ANC Youth League
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: ANC Youth League promotes debunked steam and pH ‘cures’ for Covid-19
review_date: 2021-01-12T14:05:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/anc-youth-league-promotes-debunked-steam-and-ph-cures-covid-19


claimant: iJozi
claim_date: 2017-09-07T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence South African women top list of Africa's heavy-drinking females, drink to harm babies
review_date: 2019-07-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African women are the heaviest drinkers in Africa and they drink deliberately to harm babies to claim a welfare cheque

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-south-african-women-top-list-africas-heavy


text: “Over the next few years, Kenya ought to pay $60 billion to the China Exim Bank alone.”
claimant: Ventures Africa, a Nigerian online news platform
claim_date: 2021-12-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-02-23T12:39:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerian-online-publication-botches-kenyas-china-debt-numbers-right-about-port

title:
Nigerian online publication botches Kenya’s China debt numbers, but is right about port seizure warning


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying claims by Kenya’s president on electrification and title deeds
review_date: 2020-06-30T12:09:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘But in only seven years, an additional 4.5 million title deeds have been issued under my administration.’

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-claims-kenyas-president-electrification-and-title-deeds


text: “In the northeast region alone, over 8,000 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered.”
claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:45Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-61-checking-president-buharis-2021-independence-day-claims


text: “Some estimates have it that about 13% of the population is affected by drug addiction.”
claimant: Joseph Boakai, opposition party leader in Liberia
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-07-20T06:37:55Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/narco-state-no-one-has-data-so-where-did-liberian-opposition-leader-joseph-2

title:
A ‘narco-state’: No one has the data, so where did Liberian opposition leader Joseph Boakai get figures on drug abuse?


text: Nigeria has an estimated physician-patient ratio of one doctor to every 4,000 to 5,000 patients.
claimant: Al Jazeera
claim_date: 2019-10-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Al Jazeera’s claims about Nigeria’s ‘mental health problem’
review_date: 2019-11-19T08:06:22Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-al-jazeeras-claims-about-nigerias-mental-health-problem


text: Mining fatalities are rising
claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T11:26:52Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-pres-cyril-ramaphosas-first-ever-state-nation-address


text: “Between 25 and 30% of individuals” will have persistent symptoms after Covid-19 infection.
claimant: South African radio station, Cape Talk
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: 100 million people with persistent coronavirus symptoms? Two ‘long Covid’ stats, investigated
review_date: 2022-02-09T08:00:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/100-million-people-persistent-coronavirus-symptoms-two-long-covid-stats


text: The government of Kenya has put over KSh100 billion in Kenya Airways.
claimant: William Ruto, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-22T05:47:33Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/ruto-campaign-trail-grading-some-kenyan-deputy-president-claims-about-his

title:
Ruto on the campaign trail: Grading some of Kenyan deputy president claims about his record in office


text: Kenya’s debt more than quadrupled to KSh8.58 trillion ($71 billion) under Kenyatta.
claimant: Online Nigerian publication, Ventures Africa
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenyatta’s debt legacy: Reviewing two claims about Kenya’s borrowing under former president
review_date: 2023-04-21T05:18:47Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyattas-debt-legacy-reviewing-two-claims-about-kenyas-borrowing-under-former


claimant: Nuraan Davids
claim_date: 2018-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Women teach and men lead? Gender inequality in South African schools examined
review_date: 2018-08-31T09:43:38Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Female teachers make up about 68% of the country’s teaching force. But only 36% of principals are women.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/women-teach-and-men-lead-gender-inequality-south-african-schools-examined


text: “The current budget deficit is 5.7%.”
claimant: Dr William Ruto, the President of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-31T07:16:34Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyan-president-william-ruto-sparred-journalists-over-his-policies-did-he-get

title:
Kenyan president William Ruto sparred with journalists over his policies. Did he get his facts right?


text: Israel’s exports in 2021 were valued at $59.8 billion.
claimant: Peter Obi, Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-13T08:09:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/oil-money-guns-fact-checking-nigerian-presidential-hopefuls-claims-town-hall-tv

title:
Oil, money, guns – fact-checking Nigerian presidential hopefuls’ claims on town hall TV series The Candidates


text: Organ donors alive when organs harvested
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, organ donors not alive when organs harvested. This harmful meme risks lives
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-organ-donors-not-alive-when-organs-harvested-harmful-meme


text: About 2,000 Nigerian doctors are migrating annually.
claimant: TVC News
claim_date: 2021-08-15T12:00:00Z
title: Did journalists’ TV ‘hangout’ get facts about healthcare in Nigeria right?
review_date: 2021-09-12T09:30:19Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-journalists-tv-hangout-get-facts-about-healthcare-nigeria-right


text: Putting a slice of lemon in your water alkalises and cleanses your liver.
claimant: City of Joburg
claim_date: 2017-01-23T12:00:00Z
title: Not #healthyliving: Why these City of Joburg tweets are nonsense
review_date: 2017-08-28T09:24:40Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/not-healthyliving-why-these-city-joburg-tweets-are-nonsense


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Kenya has an estimated per capita income of Ksh244,099 in 2021. This is a significant leap of 92.1% from the level of KSh 127,065 in 2013.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-president-eyes-exit-we-fact-checked-his-administrations-last-budget


claimant: Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-04-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-nation-2019-did-kenyatta-get-his-facts-right
title: State of the Nation 2019: Did Kenyatta get his facts right?
review_date: 2019-04-05T13:26:49Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The (micro, small and medium enterprises) sector, employs approximately 14.9 million Kenyans and contributes an estimated 28 % of our GDP.”


text: “Two-thirds of Kenya’s agricultural land requires irrigation.”
claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2022-06-30T12:00:00Z
title: #KenyaDecides2022: Fact-checking William Ruto’s manifesto ahead of presidential election
review_date: 2022-08-08T12:39:48Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyadecides2022-fact-checking-william-rutos-manifesto-ahead-presidential


text: “At the county level, we have allocated KSh2.3 trillion to our counties.”
claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:39:59Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyatta-fact-checking-kenyan-presidents-claims-about-his-legacy


text: South Africa’s national average water loss is 37%.
claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T07:23:56Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/promise-more-fact-checking-claims-made-democratic-alliances-2021-election

title:
‘A promise of more’ – Fact-checking claims made in the Democratic Alliance’s 2021 election manifesto


text: In Nigeria … in terms of revenue share, 20% goes to the local government.
claimant: Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s ex-prime minister Odinga mangles his numbers on government revenue share in Nigeria
review_date: 2020-09-23T09:16:32Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-ex-prime-minister-odinga-mangles-his-numbers-government-revenue-share


text: There are nearly 40 million Twitter users in Nigeria
claimant: NOI Polls
claim_date: 2021-06-09T12:00:00Z
title: Forty million Twitter users in Nigeria?Africa
review_date: 2021-06-28T07:47:43Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/forty-million-twitter-users-nigeria-how-pollsters-flawed-figure-became-fact


text: US, UK, EU and AU representatives missed Nigerian President Buhari’s inauguration
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: Did US, UK, EU and AU representatives miss Nigerian President Buhari’s inauguration?
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mixed
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/did-us-uk-eu-and-au-representatives-miss-nigerian-president-buharis


text: UK and US withdrawing citizens from Nigeria due to ‘war against Christians’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, UK and US not withdrawing citizens from Nigeria due to ‘war against Christians’
review_date: 2019-07-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-uk-and-us-not-withdrawing-citizens-nigeria-due-war-against-christians


text: Man hanged in Iraq for refusing to denounce Jesus
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z
title: Man hanged in Iraq for refusing to denounce Jesus? No, photo shows execution of Iranian murderer
review_date: 2019-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/man-hanged-iraq-refusing-denounce-jesus-no-photo-shows


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-01-08T12:00:00Z
title: ANC at 107: Eight birthday claims by party leader Ramaphosa fact-checked
review_date: 2019-01-11T07:54:05Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Despite economic challenges over the last few years, our economy has tripled in size over the last 25 years.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/anc-107-eight-birthday-claims-party-leader-ramaphosa-fact-checked


text: Ascorbic acid or Vitamin C comes from the deep sea.
claimant: Nigerian preacher
claim_date: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z
title: Vitamin C does not ‘come from the deep sea’, as Nigerian preacher claims
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/vitamin-c-does-not-come-deep-sea-nigerian-preacher-claims


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-28T00:00:00Z
title: Kenyan governor or South African councillor ‘launching lights’? No, photos are from Tanzania
review_date: 2019-04-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Kenyan governor or South African councillor launching safety lights outside a grass-thatched mud house

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/kenyan-governor-or-south-african-councillor-launching-lights


text: ‘Black Friday’ started as the day slaves were sold in the US
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z
title: No, ‘Black Friday’ didn’t start as the day slaves were sold in the US
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-black-friday-didnt-start-day-slaves-were-sold-us


text: US member of congress Ilhan Omar said ‘all white men should be put in chains’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-03T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-somali-american-and-muslim-us-congresswoman-didnt-say-all

title:
No, Somali American (and Muslim) US congresswoman didn’t say ‘all white men should be put in chains’


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, photo of ‘poor’ kids in class not from Kenya’s Pokot region
review_date: 2019-03-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Image captioned "When your kid has uniform, books, food and transport, in Tiaty, East Pokot, other proud Kenyans are also studying. Don’t mind attire but the brain."

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-photo-poor-kids-class-not-kenyas-pokot-region


text: “Maize is not available anywhere in the world.”
claimant: Rigathi Gachagua, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-27T04:40:02Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/saving-face-and-subsidy-disappeared-fact-checking-kenyan-deputy-president

title:
‘Saving face’ and the subsidy that disappeared: Fact-checking Kenyan deputy president Gachagua's media claims


text: 45,500 people received antiretroviral therapy from the public health sector in 2004.
claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-11-08T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-Checked: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s claims about progress in South Africa since 1994
review_date: 2019-11-14T07:41:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-president-cyril-ramaphosas-claims-about-progress-south-africa-1994


claimant: Mmusi Maimane
claim_date: 2019-02-12T12:00:00Z
title: Settling the long-running DA-ANC spat over City of Tshwane finances
review_date: 2019-03-28T08:06:21Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In Tshwane, the DA inherited a R1 billion deficit from the ANC and turned it into a surplus in a year.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/settling-long-running-da-anc-spat-over-city-tshwane-finances


claimant: Ahmednasir Abdullahi
claim_date: 2019-04-06T12:00:00Z
title: Top Kenyan lawyer gets parliament and judiciary funding numbers wrong
review_date: 2019-04-01T14:01:05Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Parliament… has [a budget of] KSh40 billion out of which KSh10 billion is for foreign/local trips/entertainment.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/top-kenyan-lawyer-gets-parliament-and-judiciary-funding-numbers-wrong


claimant: Alhassan Doguwa
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Federal legislator misleads about the law and Nigerian politicians’ campaign cash
review_date: 2023-02-23T10:40:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“A member of the house of representatives is expected to have not more than N70 million to conduct his election, logistics and other things, by law.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/federal-legislator-misleads-about-law-and-nigerian-politicians-campaign-cash


text: President Donald Trump said that BEE in South Africa was ‘economic segregation’
claimant: XpouZAR.com
claim_date: 2019-02-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, Donald Trump didn’t tweet that BEE in South Africa was ‘economic segregation’
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-donald-trump-didnt-tweet-bee-south-africa-was-economic


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Six claims by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 national day speech
review_date: 2021-11-24T13:13:18Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Similarly, our total hospital bed capacity as a country has increased by 47% from 56,069 in 2013 to the current figure of 82,291 hospital beds spread throughout the country.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-six-claims-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-2021-national-day


text: “Lagos is now the third largest economy in Africa.”
claimant: The APC’s Kashim Shettima and Festus Keyamo
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: #NigeriaDecides2023: Ruling APC party chiefs fall flat with TV claims about the economy
review_date: 2022-09-14T06:41:04Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeriadecides2023-ruling-apc-party-chiefs-fall-flat-tv-claims-about-economy


text: Free key holders help criminals follow you home
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-11-10T00:00:00Z
title: Free key holders help criminals follow you home? Don’t fall for this old hoax
review_date: 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/free-key-holders-help-criminals-follow-you-home-dont-fall


text: More than 10 million youth are unemployed
claimant: Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2018-07-21T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian joblessness at all-time high? Checking a politician’s claims
review_date: 2018-08-13T07:27:04Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerian-joblessness-all-time-high-checking-politicians-claims


text: The WHO recommends a caesarean section threshold of 10%
claimant: Punch newspaper
claim_date: 2021-02-07T12:00:00Z
title: Are caesarean sections in Nigeria ‘far below’ the international rate, as newspaper claimed?
review_date: 2021-03-12T06:39:59Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-caesarean-sections-nigeria-far-below-international-rate-newspaper-claimed


text: South Africans drink more per person than anywhere else in Africa
claimant: South African health minister Zweli Mkhize
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking SA’s health minister on SA’s alcohol consumption Africa Check
review_date: 2020-08-28T07:00:32Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-south-africas-health-minister-countrys-relationship-alcohol


text: The N-Power programme has yielded over 2 million direct and indirect employment opportunities.
claimant: Boss Mustapha
claim_date: 2019-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence for big millions of jobs claim by Nigerian senior official
review_date: 2019-08-27T07:54:42Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-big-millions-jobs-claim-nigerian-senior-official


text: The national government has transferred KSh2.44 trillion to the counties “from 2013 to date”.
claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:02:29Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/last-hurrah-kenyas-president-mangles-numbers-his-final-national-day-address


text: A Unicef report showed that Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children globally.
claimant: Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, first lady of Lagos state
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claims on malnutrition in women and children
review_date: 2021-05-18T07:07:15Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/well-known-nigerian-doctor-correct-about-malnutrition-women-and-children


claimant: Musalia Mudavadi, party leader, Amani National Congress
claim_date: 2020-06-11T12:00:00Z
title: It’s a crisis! Fact-checking top opposition leader’s claims about Kenya’s 2020 budget
review_date: 2020-07-08T07:55:30Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Parliament is getting KSh38 billion, the judiciary is getting KSh18 billion, basically 50% [of parliament’s allocation].

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/its-crisis-fact-checking-top-opposition-leaders-claims-about-kenyas-2020-budget


claimant: Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: EFF wrong to compare Russia and China vaccine
review_date: 2021-05-12T05:38:07Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Russian and Chinese vaccines have “up to this point ... proven to be of better efficacy than Euro-American vaccines”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/russian-and-chinese-covid-19-jabs-better-south-africas-eff-wrong-compare


text: South Africa has 1.8 million white and 30 million black people of working age.
claimant: Twitter
claim_date: 2022-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Race and private sector ownership in South Africa: three viral claims investigated
review_date: 2022-12-06T08:28:28Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/race-and-private-sector-ownership-south-africa-three-viral-claims-investigated


text: Over 40 million hitherto vibrant businesses have closed.
claimant: PDP
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's top political parties debate Twitters Ghana decision
review_date: 2021-05-06T13:09:07Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/twitter-opts-ghana-office-nigerias-top-political-parties-cast-blame-did-they


text: Last year [the fuel subsidy] “gulped 4.3 trn naira ($9.3 bn; £7.5 bn) ...”
claimant: The British Broadcasting Corporation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-08T04:12:14Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checking-bbcs-claims-about-buharis-poor-economic-legacy-nigeria-and-new

title:
Checking the BBC's claims about Buhari’s poor economic legacy in Nigeria – and new president Tinubu’s headache


text: Only 3.2 million people actually pay PAYE
claimant: Raphael Tuju
claim_date: 2018-09-21T12:00:00Z
title: Is top ruling Jubilee Party official right about who is paying income tax in Kenya?
review_date: 2018-10-30T08:20:31Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/top-ruling-jubilee-party-official-right-about-who-paying-income-tax-kenya


text: “Youth unemployment got up to 50%.”
claimant: Dr Sam Ohuabunwa of the Peoples Democratic Party
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-02T10:47:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nothing-under-government-fact-checking-five-claims-about-record-nigerias

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


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The economy has grown by 155% from the value of KSh5.3 trillion in 2013 to KSh13.5 trillion in 2022.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-president-eyes-exit-we-fact-checked-his-administrations-last-budget


text: The Unesco benchmark is 35 students per teacher
claimant: Nigerian columnist Jerome-Mario Utomi
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: 100 pupils to a teacher? Fact-checking widely read claims about education in Nigeria
review_date: 2021-08-03T06:55:01Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/100-pupils-teacher-fact-checking-widely-read-claims-about-education-nigeria


text: Women shouldn’t drink ice water or soda water during menstruation, or eat coconut.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: Busting four false claims about menstruation, cancer and women’s bodies
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/busting-four-false-claims-about-menstruation-cancer-and


text: “The state generated N24 billion internally in 2021.”
claimant: Peoples Democratic Party statement (January 2022)
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking seven claims about Nigeria’s ‘unemployment capital’
review_date: 2022-02-15T08:18:05Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-seven-claims-about-nigerias-unemployment-capital


text: An average Kenyan will have to work almost 60 days to afford Apple's premium iPhone XS.
claimant: Picodi
claim_date: 2019-01-22T12:00:00Z
title: No, 60 days of the ‘average’ Kenyan wage won't buy you a new iPhone XS
review_date: 2019-02-04T10:13:40Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-60-days-average-kenyan-wage-wont-buy-you-new-iphone-xs


text: 80% of the population continues to occupy less than 10% of South Africa’s land
claimant: Economic Freedom Fighters
claim_date: 2019-02-02T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Our land and jobs now!’ Fact-checking the EFF’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-05-05T14:19:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/our-land-and-jobs-now-fact-checking-effs-2019-election-manifesto


text: Each person [in Nigeria] generates an average of 0.65 kg of waste per day.
claimant: The Guardian newspaper Nigeria
claim_date: 2019-05-02T12:00:00Z
title: What a waste: fact-checking four claims about Nigeria’s garbage problem
review_date: 2019-07-25T12:14:49Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/what-waste-fact-checking-four-claims-about-nigerias-garbage-problem


text: 99% of revenue is being committed to debt servicing alone.
claimant: Dr Obadiah Mailafia, former deputy governor of the Central Bank Of Nigeria
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Prominent economist warning needs larger view
review_date: 2020-08-12T10:09:48Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-officially-broke-why-prominent-economists-warning-needs-larger-view


claimant: Peoples Democratic Party statement (January 2022)
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking seven claims about Nigeria’s ‘unemployment capital’
review_date: 2022-02-15T08:18:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Worse still, within two years, our state ranks highest in the south-east in terms of infant mortality rate.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-seven-claims-about-nigerias-unemployment-capital


text: South Africa's townships contribute up to R100 billion to the overall economy.
claimant: Vuyo Tofile
claim_date: 2018-05-23T12:00:00Z
title: Townships contribute R100bn to South Africa’s economy? No way to tell
review_date: 2018-07-20T07:18:15Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/townships-contribute-r100bn-south-africas-economy-no-way-tell


text: 1, 400 kilometres is the length of our borders today
claimant: Fela Durotoye
claim_date: 2019-01-19T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria #Debate2019: Did presidential candidates get their facts straight?
review_date: 2019-01-23T15:33:55Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-debate2019-did-presidential-candidates-get-their-facts-straight


text: “There are 13 million South Africans who are not registered to vote.” – John Steenhuisen, DA
claimant: South African opposition parties
claim_date: 2023-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-25T09:40:46Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nationalconvention2024-fact-checking-opposition-claims-about-crime-jobs-and

title:
#NationalConvention2024: Fact-checking opposition claims about crime, jobs and voting in South Africa


claimant: Prof Innocent Ujah
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘In search of greener pastures’: Checking five claims about Nigeria’s doctors and the brain drain
review_date: 2022-07-19T10:40:17Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Over 9,000 medical doctors of Nigerian origin left the shores of the country in search of greener pastures in the United Kingdom, the US and Canada in two years.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/search-greener-pastures-checking-five-claims-about-nigerias-doctors-and-brain


text: South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘dancing like nyaope boys’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: No, fake photo doesn’t show South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa ‘dancing like nyaope boys’
review_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-fake-photo-doesnt-show-south-africas-president-cyril


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-03-21T00:00:00Z
title: South Africa’s President Ramaphosa wrong about access to electricity in 1994
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In 1994, only 36% of the population in our country had access to electricity. Today, eight out of 10 South Africans have electricity in their homes.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/south-africas-president-ramaphosa-wrong-about-access-electricity-1994


claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2019-06-08T00:00:00Z
title: Nonsense to claim London attack on lesbian women was #staged #hoax
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Two lesbian women assaulted on a London bus in a 30 May 2019 homophobic attack was a staged hoax for Pride month

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/nonsense-claim-london-attack-lesbian-women-was-staged-hoax


claimant: Obiageli Ezekwesili
claim_date: 2018-11-28T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Project Rescue Nigeria’: Fact-checking Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential manifesto
review_date: 2019-01-16T12:50:21Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Unfortunately, more than 70% of Nigerians have pre-school children without access to Early Child Care Education.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/project-rescue-nigeria-fact-checking-oby-ezekwesilis-presidential-manifesto


text: Photo Yorubas burning Igbo property in Nigeria
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, photo isn’t of Yorubas burning Igbo property in Nigeria - it’s a 2017 protest in South Africa
review_date: 2019-03-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-photo-isnt-yorubas-burning-igbo-property-nigeria-its-2017


claimant: Nigerian presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore
claim_date: 2022-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria presidential candidate misses mark with claim about country’s ‘illegal’ 2023 budget
review_date: 2022-11-07T10:16:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The 2023 budget is illegal because it violated the Fiscal Responsibility Act on the deficit-to-GDP ratio.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-presidential-candidate-misses-mark-claim-about-countrys-illegal-2023


text: KwaZulu-Natal is South Africa’s murder capital
claimant: Independent Online
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Is KwaZulu-Natal South Africa’s murder capital? Or Inanda township the country's ‘rape capital’?
review_date: 2020-08-17T09:31:06Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kwazulu-natal-south-africas-murder-capital-or-inanda-township-countrys-rape


text: Before this [Buhari’s] administration, ICT was contributing less than 5% of GDP.
claimant: Daily Post, a Nigerian newspaper
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-02T06:31:11Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-nigeria-ict-heads-claims-about-sectors-contribution-nigerias-economy

title:
Verifying Nigeria ICT head’s claims about sector’s contribution to Nigeria’s economy before and during president Buhari’s term


text: “The Muhoroni power plant is producing energy at 52 US cents per kilowatt hour.”
claimant: Kenyan president William Ruto
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Kenyan president Ruto’s first roundtable with journalists
review_date: 2023-01-18T07:34:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-kenyan-president-rutos-first-roundtable-journalists


claimant: Local media
claim_date: 2019-04-19T12:00:00Z
title: No, SA government hasn’t built 4 million houses – and Ramaphosa didn’t promise a million in Alex
review_date: 2019-04-16T12:38:45Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Media reported that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to build 1 million houses in Alexandra township.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-sa-government-hasnt-built-4-million-houses-and-ramaphosa-didnt-promise


text: Unemployment right now stands at 40%
claimant: Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2017-07-24T12:00:00Z
title: The presidential debate that wasn’t: Did Kenya’s Odinga get his facts straight?
review_date: 2017-07-27T13:33:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/presidential-debate-wasnt-did-kenyas-odinga-get-his-facts-straight


claimant: Jubilee Party
claim_date: 2017-06-26T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/jubilee-party-manifesto-5-claims-fact-checked
title: The Jubilee Party manifesto: 5 claims fact-checked
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:24:57Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In the last four years, we have connected an additional 15,137 public primary schools. Connecting these schools to the national grid has been a key plank of Uhuru Kenyatta’s first term which started in April 2013.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, McDonald’s did not ‘allow’ creation or display of controversial McJesus sculpture
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Ronald McDonald, mascot of the McDonalds fast food chain, nailed to a cross in a pose reminiscent of the crucifixion of Jesus.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-mcdonalds-did-not-allow-creation-or-display-controversial


claimant: Kenyan deputy president William Ruto
claim_date: 2022-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Raila Odinga jets into London, we fact-check Kenyan deputy president’s 2022 Chatham House speech
review_date: 2022-03-16T05:59:57Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Four million of our young people [are] out of school, out of college, out of university, have no jobs.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/raila-odinga-jets-london-we-fact-check-kenyan-deputy-presidents-2022-chatham


claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2019-01-12T00:00:00Z
title: Duterte statue in Nairobi? Afrikan Daily makes up another story
review_date: 2018-12-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta had erected a statue in honour of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/duterte-statue-nairobi-afrikan-daily-makes-another-story


text: 50 million ballot papers already thumb-printed for PDP
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-16T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/nigerias-electoral-commission-says-claim-50-million-ballot

title:
Nigeria’s electoral commission says claim of ‘50 million ballot papers already thumb-printed for PDP’ is fake


claimant: Codex News
claim_date: 2019-07-07T00:00:00Z
title: Who is Nigeria’s real president? Photo of Buhari and Kyari photoshopped
review_date: 2019-07-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Behind the scenes, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff Abba Kyari “is the real president of Nigeria”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/who-nigerias-real-president-photo-buhari-and-kyari


text: South Africa has a ratio of 1 clinic to 16,971 people, as opposed to the guideline of 1:10,000.
claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2019-02-23T12:00:00Z
title: ‘One South Africa for All!’ Fact-checking the DA’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-03-24T14:26:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/one-south-africa-all-fact-checking-das-2019-election-manifesto


text: We have connected 6.9 million people to electricity in the last five years.
claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-02-08T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s Ruto at Chatham House: verifying the deputy president’s London speech
review_date: 2019-02-25T08:57:43Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-ruto-chatham-house-verifying-deputy-presidents-london-speech


claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
review_date: 2021-06-30T07:43:38Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The South African government has continued to drop the standards by lowering the requirements to pass matric. We are currently at 30%.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-9-claims-about-south-african-schools-ernst-roets


text: Crystallised book is a bible found at the bottom of the ocean.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: Crystallised old dictionary, not ‘bible found at bottom of ocean’
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/crystallised-old-dictionary-not-bible-found-bottom-ocean


claimant: African National Congress
claim_date: 2019-01-12T12:00:00Z
title: ‘A better life for all?’ Fact-checking the ANC’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-02-11T06:10:12Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have invested more than R2 trillion in infrastructure projects over the past 10 years to build more schools, clinics, roads and the freight logistics network.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/better-life-all-fact-checking-ancs-2019-election-manifesto


text: In the 1970s and 1980s we were producing vaccines.
claimant: Sam Ohuabunwa, president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria
claim_date: 2020-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria and Covid-19: Fact-checking claims about vaccines and lack of research
review_date: 2020-06-18T07:26:07Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-and-covid-19-fact-checking-claims-about-vaccines-and-lack-research


text: Gauteng is the seventh largest economy in Africa
claimant: David Makhura
claim_date: 2018-11-08T12:00:00Z
title: Does Gauteng make up a third of South Africa’s GDP? And is it Africa’s seventh biggest economy?
review_date: 2018-11-19T12:46:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-gauteng-make-third-south-africas-gdp-and-it-africas-seventh-biggest


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-07T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-06-07T13:18:52Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“According to the WHO, the monkeypox pathogen strain was imported from Nigeria, where the US deployed its biological infrastructure"

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/health-agencies-deny-reports-us-funded-monkeypox-biolabs

title:
Health agencies deny reports of US-funded monkeypox 'biolabs' in Nigeria – and (still) no Russian request for WHO investigation


text: Margarine is one molecule away from plastic and shares 27 ingredients with paint
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Margarine isn’t one molecule away from plastic, doesn’t share 27 ingredients with paint
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/margarine-isnt-one-molecule-away-plastic-doesnt-share-27


text: Video of leaping whale in school hall is a hologram
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: Video of leaping whale in school hall isn’t a hologram – it’s an advert
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/video-leaping-whale-school-hall-isnt-hologram-its-advert


text: ‘At independence, we had only 1,800 kilometres of tarmacked roads.’
claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: A tale of twists and turns in Kenyatta’s claims about improving Kenya’s roads
review_date: 2020-06-15T09:09:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/tale-twists-and-turns-kenyattas-claims-about-improving-kenyas-roads


text: Niger has the highest fertility rate in Nigeria’s north-central zone.
claimant: Dr Muhammad Makusidi, Niger state health commissioner
claim_date: 2021-12-01T12:00:00Z
title: Is the fertility rate in Nigeria’s Niger state the highest in the north-central zone?
review_date: 2022-01-10T07:37:07Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fertility-rate-nigerias-niger-state-highest-north-central-zone


text: 50% of young women in northern Nigeria have no formal education
claimant: Coca-Cola Nigeria
claim_date: 2019-03-08T12:00:00Z
title: Coca-Cola is right: 50% of young women in northern Nigeria have no formal education
review_date: 2019-06-25T09:05:36Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/coca-cola-right-50-young-women-northern-nigeria-have-no-formal-education


text: South Africa “has an established vaccine manufacturing capability”
claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2020-07-12T12:00:00Z
title: Is South African president Ramaphosa correct about country’s ability to make vaccines?
review_date: 2020-07-22T06:52:32Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-african-president-ramaphosa-correct-about-countrys-ability-make-vaccines


text: Abortion Barbie doll created to teach girls about abortion
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, ‘abortion Barbie’ doll wasn’t created to teach girls about abortion
review_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-abortion-barbie-doll-wasnt-created-teach-girls-about


claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: ANALYSIS: Gender equality in South Africa’s cabinet – beyond the numbers
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet has become one of 11 countries in the world with gender equal cabinets.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/blog/analysis-gender-equality-south-africas-cabinet-beyond-numbers


text: “One sack of marijuana is US$3.2 million.”
claimant: Kenyan presidential candidate George Wajackoyah
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Ganjanomics: Fact-checking Kenyan presidential candidate George Wajackoyah’s marijuana agenda
review_date: 2022-07-05T10:31:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/ganjanomics-fact-checking-kenyan-presidential-candidate-george-wajackoyahs


claimant: National Center for Biotechnology Information
claim_date: 2019-07-05T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: four claims about sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-10-01T08:44:07Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria accounts for about one-quarter of the estimated 115 to 130 million circumcised women worldwide.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-four-claims-about-sexual-and-reproductive-health-nigeria


text: The Democratic Alliance created 98% of all net new jobs in the last quarter of 2022.
claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-29T07:35:24Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-western-cape-province-account-98-all-new-employment-south-africa-why-das

title:
Does the Western Cape province account for 98% of all new employment in South Africa? Why the DA’s jobs claim is misleading (and outdated)


text: Leaving cut onions overnight makes them poisonous
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: No ‘danger’ in leaving cut onions overnight
review_date: 2019-07-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-danger-leaving-cut-onions-overnight


claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T07:23:56Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“South Africa’s municipal sewerage system is collapsing. Of the 824 treatment plants, approximately 60 release clean water.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/promise-more-fact-checking-claims-made-democratic-alliances-2021-election

title:
‘A promise of more’ – Fact-checking claims made in the Democratic Alliance’s 2021 election manifesto


text: Dangote’s refinery cost N4.1 trillion.
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Checking three claims about Nigeria's ever-controversial fuel subsidy
review_date: 2022-06-28T12:44:54Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checking-three-claims-about-nigerias-ever-controversial-fuel-subsidy


claimant: Kenyan presidential hopeful Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2022-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Battle of Chatham’? Checking four claims by Kenyan presidential hopeful Odinga at London thinktank
review_date: 2022-04-12T08:25:16Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The entry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo into the East African Community increases the population of the regional bloc to “over 300 million”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/battle-chatham-fact-checking-4-claims-kenyan-presidential-hopeful-raila-odinga


claimant: Economic Freedom Fighters
claim_date: 2019-02-02T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Our land and jobs now!’ Fact-checking the EFF’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-03-04T04:42:01Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
”Close to 40% of South Africans who need jobs are unemployed, meaning that more than nine million South Africans who need jobs and are capable of working cannot find employment.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/our-land-and-jobs-now-fact-checking-effs-2019-election-manifesto


text: More than 60% of South African gun owners are black Africans.
claimant: Paul Oxley
claim_date: 2021-05-23T12:00:00Z
title: Murder, VIPs and theft: Fact-checking five claims by Gun Owners South Africa
review_date: 2021-06-14T12:51:09Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/murder-vips-and-theft-fact-checking-five-claims-gun-owners-south-africa


claimant: Femi Fani-Kayode
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-least-50000-nigerians-die-terrorism-2017
title: Did ‘at least 50,000’ Nigerians die from terrorism in 2017?
review_date: 2018-01-25T08:31:28Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"The death toll from terrorism in Nigeria is far higher than 7,512 in the past year. It is at least 50,000."


text: Between the 1st of April 2018 and June 2019 there were 2,162 fraudulent marriages.
claimant: Minister of home affairs Aaron Motsoaledi
claim_date: 2019-06-06T12:00:00Z
title: Over 2,000 phoney marriages reported in South Africa, but only 1,160 ‘truly fraudulent’
review_date: 2019-07-16T08:04:27Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/over-2000-phoney-marriages-reported-south-africa-only-1160-truly-fraudulent


text: Swarm of bees magically recovers a stolen car in Kenya
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-03T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of bees ‘recovering stolen car’ snapped in Wales, not Kenya
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photo-bees-recovering-stolen-car-snapped-wales-not-kenya


claimant: Rabiu Kwankwaso
claim_date: 2022-12-04T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claims by Nigerian presidential hopefuls at the Arise TV town hall
review_date: 2022-12-20T13:43:18Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“I reversed it by the time we were leaving office: 30% on recurrent expenditure and 70% on capital expenditure.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-claims-nigerian-presidential-hopefuls-arise-tv-town-hall


text: “Mount Kenya counties got KSh39 billion in 2013 when Kenyatta took office.”
claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta and Andrew Wakahiu
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-28T06:38:26Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/president-kenyatta-did-send-billions-mt-kenya-counties-misled-how-much-kenyas

title:
President Kenyatta did send billions to Mt Kenya counties, but misled on how much Kenya’s economy has grown under his watch


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:49Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The water projects we completed between 2015 to 2020 have improved Nigeria's access to potable water to 71% between 2015 and 2020.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-61-checking-president-buharis-2021-independence-day-claims


text: Old man being buried in his car in Kenya
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-04-27T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, funeral photos show man buried in his car – but in the US, not Kenya
review_date: 2019-04-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-funeral-photos-show-man-buried-his-car-us-not-kenya


text: US, Russia, Israel and France approve Biafra’s separation from Nigeria
claimant: The Pointer News
claim_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence US, Russia, Israel and France ‘approve’ Biafra’s separation from Nigeria
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-us-russia-israel-and-france-approve-biafras-1


text: “The law and best practice demand that we spend 35% [of revenues on salaries and wages].”
claimant: William Ruto, president of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-07-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-07-17T05:07:44Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-kenyan-president-right-salaries-and-wages-take-46-revenue-made-common

title:
Yes, Kenyan president right that salaries and wages take up 46% of revenue, but made a common statistical error


text: The number of commercial farmers in South Africa has fallen from 120,000 to 38,000.
claimant: Dianne Kohler Barnard, Democratic Alliance member of parliament
claim_date: 2020-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-10-21T08:13:10Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/have-south-africas-commercial-farmers-declined-120000-1994-38000-da-mps-claim

title:
Have South Africa’s commercial farmers declined from 120,000 in 1994 to 38,000? DA MP’s claim is misleading


text: Today the Kenya Revenue Authority is collecting over KSh1.3 trillion.
claimant: Aden Duale
claim_date: 2018-09-04T12:00:00Z
title: Tax revenue & development spend: does Kenya’s majority leader get his numbers right?
review_date: 2018-09-14T06:52:27Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/tax-revenue-development-spend-does-kenyas-majority-leader-get-his-numbers-right


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/chickens-and-economy-fact-checking-ramaphosas-sona2021
title: Fact-checking Ramaphosa's #SONA2021
review_date: 2021-02-17T07:26:51Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“By the end of January 2021, over 430,000 opportunities have already been supported through the [Presidential Employment Stimulus]. A further 180,000 opportunities are currently in the recruitment process.”


text: “Kibaki … managed to triple tax revenues from $2 billion in 2002 to$6 billion by 2011.”
claimant: The Conversation Africa
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya's public debt and revenue: How the data almost tripped up a leading African publication
review_date: 2023-03-16T09:26:14Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-public-debt-and-revenue-how-data-almost-tripped-leading-african


text: Tala and Branch databases hacked in Kenya to clear loan defaulter names
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-05T00:00:00Z
title: No, Tala and Branch databases not hacked in Kenya to clear loan defaulter names
review_date: 2019-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-tala-and-branch-databases-not-hacked-kenya-clear-loan


text: “Excise revenue has declined from approximately 3% of GDP in 2003/04 to about 2% in 2017/18.”
claimant: Henry Rotich
claim_date: 2019-06-13T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya's 2019 budget speech: do finance minister’s numbers add up?
review_date: 2019-06-17T08:36:34Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-2019-budget-speech-do-finance-ministers-numbers-add


text: Two claims about the number of young people not in employment, education or training
claimant: Xola Nqola, African National Congress (ANC), and Mmoba Solomon Malatsi, DA
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-07T06:55:54Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/debating-state-nation-south-african-mps-claims-about-crime-education-service

title:
Debating the state of the nation: South African MPs' claims about crime, education, service delivery and more scrutinised


claimant: Rabiu Kwankwaso
claim_date: 2022-12-04T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claims by Nigerian presidential hopefuls at the Arise TV town hall
review_date: 2022-12-20T13:44:32Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Now our oil production has reduced from 2.2 million barrels a day, which is the allocation given to us by Opec, to about 1 million barrels.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-claims-nigerian-presidential-hopefuls-arise-tv-town-hall


text: “I have been rated the best performing senator in the republic of Kenya.”
claimant: Polycarp Igathe and Johnson Sakaja
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Sakaja vs Igathe debate: Fact-checking the frontrunners in 2022 Nairobi governor race
review_date: 2022-07-13T11:11:51Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/sakaja-vs-igathe-debate-fact-checking-frontrunners-2022-nairobi-governor-race


text: “Only 35.6% of children aged 36 to 59 months receive early childhood education.”
claimant: Business Day newspaper editorial
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's education system 'dire'? Grading claims in Business Day editorial
review_date: 2022-04-06T10:41:48Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-education-system-dire-grading-claims-business-day-editorial


text: “In the last eight years KRA has collected KSh10.8 trillion cumulatively in revenue.”
claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:16Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/wrong-again-fact-checking-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyattas-2021-state-nation


claimant: Gwede Mantashe
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-south-africas-clean-energy-output-zero-over-45-2010
title: Yes, South Africa’s clean energy output up from zero to ‘over 4.5%’ since 2010
review_date: 2019-12-04T09:24:35Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The South African government has successfully increased the contribution of clean energy from 0% in 2010 to over 4.5% within five years.


text: Our life expectancy [has increased] from 35 years at independence …
claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 5 claims by Kenyan President Kenyatta in national day speech
review_date: 2019-12-05T08:32:26Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-5-claims-kenyan-president-kenyatta-national-day-speech


claimant: Yemi Osinbajo
claim_date: 2019-01-16T12:00:00Z
title: Battle of the titans: Fact-checking arch-rivals in race for Nigeria’s presidency
review_date: 2019-02-14T07:29:00Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Every country in the world that wants to undergo serious development borrows money. Our debt-to-GDP ratio of about 20% is one of the lowest in the world.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/battle-titans-fact-checking-arch-rivals-race-nigerias-presidency


text: Donald Trump endorses Nigerian presidential candidate Alh Atiku Abubakar
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Video of Donald Trump endorsing Nigerian presidential candidate is fake
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/video-donald-trump-endorsing-nigerian-presidential-candidate


text: Agriculture accounts for almost 50% of the Nigerian economy.
claimant: iConsNews
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-03-25T12:04:34Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-agriculture-account-nearly-half-nigerias-economy-and-provide-living-90

title:
Does agriculture account for nearly half of Nigeria’s economy and provide a living for ‘90% of rural dwellers’?


text: [But] in 2018, when I came back, [enrolment in] Ekiti was the least in the South West
claimant: Kayode Fayemi
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian governors stellar education claim not backed
review_date: 2020-03-18T13:22:58Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-check-nigeria-state-governors-claims-about-stellar-education-record-not


claimant: President Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2020-06-12T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Buhari’s Democracy Day claims
review_date: 2020-07-02T14:40:31Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘The external reserves grew from $33.42 billion on 29 April 2020 to about $36 billion in May 2020 …”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-buharis-democracy-day-claims-about-his-economic-achievements


text: “We consume 46 million bags of maize … every year”
claimant: Martha Karua, Rigathi Gachagua, Justina Wamae, Ruth Mutua
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Battle of the deputies: Fact-checking claims from Kenya’s presidential running mate debates
review_date: 2022-07-26T08:46:24Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/battle-deputies-fact-checking-claims-kenyas-presidential-running-mate-debates


text: We have an average of 400,000 cases being filed in our courts every year
claimant: Kenya’s chief justice, David Maraga
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Factchecking Kenya’s chief justice on judiciary funding and backlog of cases
review_date: 2020-09-17T08:02:20Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/factchecking-kenyas-chief-justice-judiciary-funding-and-backlog-cases


text: One police officer serves 383 people in South Africa
claimant: Bheki Cele
claim_date: 2019-06-23T12:00:00Z
title: South African police minister cites dubious UN standard as he calls for 60,000 more officers
review_date: 2019-07-01T09:57:41Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-african-police-minister-cites-dubious-un-standard-he-calls-60000-more


text: In 2008, cervical cancer killed 9,659 Nigerian women.
claimant: Oncologist Dr Abia Nzelu
claim_date: 2021-01-21T12:00:00Z
title: Five claims about Nigeria’s ‘second cervical cancer wave’
review_date: 2021-02-18T09:39:01Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-5-claims-about-nigerias-second-cervical-cancer-wave


text: “56% [of the] urban population (approximately 6.4 million people) live in slums.”
claimant: Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2022-06-06T12:00:00Z
title: #KenyaDecides2022: Fact-checking Raila Odinga’s manifesto ahead of presidential election
review_date: 2022-08-08T12:12:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyadecides2022-fact-checking-raila-odingas-manifesto-ahead-presidential


text: “I recruited 1,000 teachers in December 2021.”
claimant: Nigeria candidates
claim_date: 2022-06-16T12:00:00Z
title: #OsunDecides2022: Did debating governor hopefuls in Nigerian state get their facts right?
review_date: 2022-07-12T12:03:40Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/osundecides2022-did-debating-governor-hopefuls-nigerian-state-get-their-facts


claimant: The Standard
claim_date: 2019-10-23T12:00:00Z
title: Has ‘super’ minister been handed nearly half of Kenya’s development cash?
review_date: 2019-11-12T07:02:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Since 2015, he [James Macharia] has been allocated on average 47% of the national development budget.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-super-minister-been-handed-nearly-half-kenyas-development-cash


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Miraculously preserved’ ancient Egyptian king in Cairo? No, photo of female mummy in Roman museum
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Body of ancient Egyptian pharaoh “Fir’auna” miraculously preserved without any mummification despite being “inside the sea for more than 3000 years”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/miraculously-preserved-ancient-egyptian-king-cairo-no-photo


text: Nairobi accounts for 45% of Kenya’s gross domestic product
claimant: The Gaurdian
claim_date: 2019-08-05T12:00:00Z
title: Nairobi produces a fifth of Kenya’s GDP – not 45%, as the Guardian claimed
review_date: 2019-08-20T08:07:11Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nairobi-produces-fifth-kenyas-gdp-not-45-guardian-claimed


claimant: Abubakar Bwari
claim_date: 2018-08-06T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/digging-numbers-informal-mining-nigeria
title: Digging up the numbers on informal mining in Nigeria
review_date: 2018-10-03T09:29:45Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
At least 2 million people in Nigeria now directly or indirectly depend on artisanal and small-scale mining for their livelihood.


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Ordinary revenue collection has more than doubled from KSh0.8 trillion in the financial year 2012/13 to Ksh1.8 trillion in the financial year 2020/21.”


text: Nigeria has one of the worst indicators of maternal mortality in the world, second to China.
claimant: Prof Friday Okonofua, prominent Nigerian gynaecologist
claim_date: 2021-12-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking claims on maternal deaths and abortion in Nigeria
review_date: 2022-01-13T09:53:46Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-claims-maternal-deaths-and-abortion-nigeria


claimant: Nigeria-based NPO Health of Mother Earth Foundation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian NGO fails to support claims about country’s corn output and its alleged medical use
review_date: 2023-06-14T03:54:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In traditional medicine the most common use of corn is to boil the kernels and drink the liquid to treat various digestive disorders.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerian-ngo-fails-support-claims-about-countrys-corn-output-and-its-alleged


text: The taxi industry transports 70% of the commuting public
claimant: The National Taxi Alliance
claim_date: 2021-01-12T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-02-02T09:37:03Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/taxi-industry-transports-majority-south-africas-public-commuters-exact-number

title:
Taxi industry transports majority of South Africa’s public commuters, but exact number of passengers unclear


claimant: APC
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's top political parties debate Twitters Ghana decision
review_date: 2021-05-06T13:09:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Multinational technology companies Facebook and Google have opened in Nigeria and the world’s largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev and multinational food manufacturing giant Kellogg’s have established their multibillion-naira brewery and factory in Nigeria.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/twitter-opts-ghana-office-nigerias-top-political-parties-cast-blame-did-they


text: The forestry sector contributes 3.6% of the national gross domestic product.
claimant: Susan Kihika
claim_date: 2019-07-10T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya logging ban: fact-checking senator’s claims on GDP & demand Africa Check
review_date: 2019-08-13T15:12:35Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenya-logging-ban-do-senators-claims-about-gdp-and-demand-add


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:12Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“This translates to 325 MW installed every year under my administration. It also means that for every year, we installed 325 megawatts since 2013”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/wrong-again-fact-checking-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyattas-2021-state-nation


text: Canadian man gets ‘first-ever horse penis transplant’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
title: Canadian man gets ‘first-ever horse penis transplant’? No, the story is fake
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/canadian-man-gets-first-ever-horse-penis-transplant-no-story


text: Mickey Mouse based on racist parody called ‘Jigaboo’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, Mickey Mouse wasn’t based on racist parody called ‘Jigaboo’ – but that’s half the story
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-mickey-mouse-wasnt-based-racist-parody-called-jigaboo


text: “Data from the World Bank says Kenya has the highest rate of youth joblessness in East Africa.”
claimant: Africanews
claim_date: 2021-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Data doesn’t back media claim that Kenya has East Africa’s highest youth unemployment rate of 38.9%
review_date: 2021-11-10T09:12:33Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/data-doesnt-back-media-claim-kenya-has-east-africas-highest-youth-unemployment


claimant: Twitter
claim_date: 2022-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Race and private sector ownership in South Africa: three viral claims investigated
review_date: 2022-12-06T08:28:28Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa’s private sector has an annual turnover of more than R10 trillion, while the government’s annual budget is R2 trillion.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/race-and-private-sector-ownership-south-africa-three-viral-claims-investigated


text: Nigeria has the highest suicide rate in Africa
claimant: Vanguard
claim_date: 2019-06-18T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria ranked ‘15th in the world’ for suicide - but Lesotho tops African list
review_date: 2019-07-10T10:17:56Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-ranked-15th-world-suicide-lesotho-tops-african-list


claimant: Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2017-02-09T12:00:00Z
title: How many SA municipalities lose more than 37% of their water? We don’t know
review_date: 2017-04-24T06:23:14Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
High water losses... in some municipalities far exceed the national average, which is currently at 37%

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/how-many-sa-municipalities-lose-more-37-their-water-we-dont-know


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-10T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
George Washington said “A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-washington-didnt-say-free-people-should-be-allowed-take

title:
No, Washington didn’t say ‘free people’ should be allowed to take up arms ‘against their government’


claimant: Ghetto Radio
claim_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kenyan governor didn’t order Nairobi’s buildings painted green and yellow
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nairobi governor Mike Sonko has “directed” building owners in the central business district of the capital to repaint their buildings in yellow and green.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-kenyan-governor-didnt-order-nairobis-buildings-painted-green-and-yellow


text: There has been a 60% drop in government revenue
claimant: President Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2020-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Buhari’s independence day speech
review_date: 2020-10-15T09:32:22Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-population-economy-and-history-fact-checking-buharis-independence-day


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Six claims by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 national day speech
review_date: 2021-11-24T13:13:15Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Kenya’s “police to population ratio is at its highest level in our history and is higher than the United Nations prescribed standard”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-six-claims-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-2021-national-day


text: Oil still earns 90% of Nigeria’s foreign exchange
claimant: Olusegun Awolowo
claim_date: 2018-08-13T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria’s economy: services drive GDP, but oil still dominates exports
review_date: 2018-08-29T07:25:29Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-economy-services-drive-gdp-oil-still-dominates-exports


claimant: Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2017-05-31T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-fewer-6000-babies-born-hiv-every-year-sa-zuma-said
title: Are fewer than 6,000 babies born HIV+ every year in SA, as Zuma said?
review_date: 2017-07-26T08:01:16Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Due to our very successful prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme, the figure has dramatically dropped to below 6,000."


text: Mike Pompeo refused to meet Nigeria’s Atiku Abubakar
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
title: US debunks claim that Mike Pompeo refused to meet Nigeria’s Atiku
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/us-debunks-claim-mike-pompeo-refused-meet-nigerias-atiku


text: Prince built Nike’s brand
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-04-22T00:00:00Z
title: No, singer-songwriter Prince didn’t build Nike’s brand
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-singer-songwriter-prince-didnt-build-nikes-brand


text: “Under the bill, children will be taught how to masturbate.”
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-16T07:39:14Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-three-misleading-claims-viral-video-about-proposed-changes-south

title:
Fact-checked: Three misleading claims in viral video about proposed changes to South Africa's basic education laws


text: Vaccines do not cause autism
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-06T00:00:00Z
title: Big data study confirms: Vaccines do not cause autism
review_date: 2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: True
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/big-data-study-confirms-vaccines-do-not-cause-autism


claimant: United Nations Population Fund
claim_date: 2019-07-05T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: four claims about sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-10-01T08:54:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Out of every [10 women] that died during childbirth, four had serious injuries such as obstetric fistula.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-four-claims-about-sexual-and-reproductive-health-nigeria


claimant: Jubilee Party
claim_date: 2017-06-26T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/jubilee-party-manifesto-5-claims-fact-checked
title: The Jubilee Party manifesto: 5 claims fact-checked
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:30:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have given priority to clean energy, (geothermal, wind power, solar and hydro), which now accounts for over 75% of the installed capacity compared to the world average of only 24%.”


claimant: Dr Chris Ifediora
claim_date: 2019-09-12T12:00:00Z
title: Charity understates cervical cancer deaths in Nigeria as it unveils campaign
review_date: 2019-10-16T09:01:05Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Of the roughly 14,000 Nigerian women diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, just over 8,000 will die.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/charity-understates-cervical-cancer-deaths-nigeria-it-unveils-campaign


text: One doctor to less than 300 patients in South Africa’s private healthcare sector
claimant: Treatment Action Campaign
claim_date: 2018-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Does one SA doctor treat 4,000 patients in public care, but fewer than 300 privately?
review_date: 2018-08-07T10:42:55Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-one-sa-doctor-treat-4000-patients-public-care-fewer-300-privately


text: “The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended doctor to patients ratio is 1:1,000.”
claimant: Dr Victor Oladokun
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: #LagosRace2023: Fact-checking claims by candidates seeking to govern Nigeria’s economic capital
review_date: 2023-02-08T09:59:38Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/lagosrace2023-fact-checking-claims-candidates-seeking-govern-nigerias-economic


text: Unreported plane crash in South Africa’s Limpopo province
claimant: Social media user
claim_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
title: No, photo doesn’t show unreported plane crash in South Africa’s Limpopo province
review_date: 2019-07-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-photo-doesnt-show-unreported-plane-crash-south-africas


claimant: Peoples Democratic Party statement (January 2022)
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking seven claims about Nigeria’s ‘unemployment capital’
review_date: 2022-02-15T08:18:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The Presidential Business Enabling Environment Council has consistently placed Imo at the lowest rung of the ladder in terms of ease of doing business in Nigeria.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-seven-claims-about-nigerias-unemployment-capital


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: Man with vision, or man with a television? Relationship advice not by Nelson Mandela
review_date: 2019-05-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nelson Mandela said “When a woman rejects a man of vision, and accept [sic] a man with television, she will end up watching the man of vision on her own husband’s television”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/man-vision-or-man-television-relationship-advice-not-nelson


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-kenya-presidents-2020-state-nation-address
title: Kenyan president’s 2020 state of the nation address
review_date: 2020-11-17T07:15:57Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In March 2018, Kenya and Ghana were the first countries to not only sign but also ratify the landmark agreement creating the African Continental Free Trade Area.


claimant: Members of parliament
claim_date: 2021-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Debating the state of South Africa: did members of parliament get their facts straight?
review_date: 2021-03-15T07:37:22Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Not a single megawatt of new generation has been procured in over five years from the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/debating-state-south-africa-did-members-parliament-get-their-facts-straight


text: Pressing ‘cancel’ twice on an ATM protects your PIN
claimant: Facebook meme
claim_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, pressing ‘cancel’ twice on an ATM doesn’t protect your PIN
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-pressing-cancel-twice-atm-doesnt-protect-your-pin


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-kenya-presidents-2020-state-nation-address
title: Kenyan president’s 2020 state of the nation address
review_date: 2020-11-17T07:14:37Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Kenya currently ranks 56th globally and third in sub-Saharan Africa on the ease of doing business report, from a low of 136th globally in 2014.


text: Staircase not stolen from flats in Eldorado Park, South Africa
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
title: No, staircase not stolen from flats in Eldorado Park, South Africa
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-staircase-not-stolen-flats-eldorado-park-south-africa


claimant: Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2022-06-06T12:00:00Z
title: #KenyaDecides2022: Fact-checking Raila Odinga’s manifesto ahead of presidential election
review_date: 2022-08-08T12:04:10Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The 2019 Kenya population and housing census recorded the youth (below 35 years) to be 35,700,787, accounting for 75.1% of the total population.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyadecides2022-fact-checking-raila-odingas-manifesto-ahead-presidential


text: Photo of burnt dead people are Christians killed by Muslims in Nigeria
claimant: Biafra Rise
claim_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of burnt dead from DRC tanker explosion, not ‘Christians killed by Muslims in Nigeria’
review_date: 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photo-burnt-dead-drc-tanker-explosion-not-christians-killed


text: The measles vaccine can be “shed, causing the virus to be spread to others”.
claimant: Children’s Health Defense
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Don’t fall for unfounded scare claims about measles vaccination in South Africa
review_date: 2023-06-12T10:12:43Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/dont-fall-unfounded-scare-claims-about-measles-vaccination-south-africa


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:11:01Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
County governments have allocated on average 6.7 % of their total budgets to the agriculture sector.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/claims-kenyas-counties-fact-checking-2019-state-devolution-address


text: Over 8.8 million South Africans were the target of online cybercrime in 2016.
claimant: Francois Beukman
claim_date: 2018-02-19T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying key claims in SA's 2018 State of the Nation address debate
review_date: 2018-03-22T08:36:16Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-key-claims-sas-2018-state-nation-address-debate


text: Teenage white girl to be tried as 300-pound black man in the USA
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-09-02T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/teenage-white-girl-be-tried-300-pound-black-man-usa-satire

title:
Teenage white girl to be tried as 300-pound black man in the USA? Satire helps us understand injustice


text: “500,000 abortions happen in Kenya nationwide, according to statistics.”
claimant: Ghetto Radio host Maji Maji
claim_date: 2021-07-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-08-24T09:45:06Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/half-million-abortions-kenya-every-year-despite-ban-yes-and-decade-old-estimate

title:
Half a million abortions in Kenya every year, despite ban? Yes – and decade-old estimate still relevant


claimant: Operation Dudula Twitter account
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-05-09T13:15:54Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African identity documents are no longer considered secure by visa-issuing authorities across the world because many Nigerian “smugglers” have been arrested with fraudulent South African documents.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-south-african-ids-no-longer-considered-secure-because-nigerian-smugglers-we

title:
Are South African IDs ‘no longer considered secure because of Nigerian smugglers’? We asked embassies


text: Six South African cities are among the top 20 most dangerous in the world
claimant: South African websites
claim_date: 2021-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-03-19T12:23:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/six-south-african-cities-top-20-worlds-most-dangerous-crime-index-based-website

title:
Six South African cities in top 20 of world’s ‘most dangerous’? Crime index based on website users’ opinions


text: Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo endorsed Nigerian President Buhari’s election bid
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2019-02-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo hasn’t endorsed Nigerian President Buhari’s election bid
review_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-footballer-cristiano-ronaldo-hasnt-endorsed-nigerian


text: Animal abusers will abuse fellow humans, including vulnerable children and women.
claimant: Cape of Good Hope SPCA
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: No research shows animal abuse always leads to violence against people
review_date: 2019-11-20T05:57:26Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-research-shows-animal-abuse-always-leads-violence-against-people


text: “Over the past two years [the Covid-19 pandemic] has … put 2 million people out of work.”
claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-16T07:32:17Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-sixth-state-nation


text: Kenyan court convicts 11 people of cannibalism
claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
title: HOAX ALERT: No, a Kenyan court didn't convict 11 people of cannibalism
review_date: 2019-01-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-no-kenyan-court-didnt-convict-11-people


claimant: Nyesom Wike
claim_date: 2017-06-11T12:00:00Z
title: Is oil-rich Rivers state safer than Lagos, Kano & 3 others as its governor claimed?
review_date: 2017-07-19T15:25:23Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Look at what is happening in Lagos, Kogi, Kaduna and Kano and you will realise that this state is the safest.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/oil-rich-rivers-state-safer-lagos-kano-3-others-its-governor-claimed


text: Charcoal can treat acne and whiten teeth
claimant: Social Media
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Super-benefits of humble charcoal? Beware of dangerous claims in widely shared Facebook posts
review_date: 2023-03-02T07:05:56Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/super-benefits-humble-charcoal-beware-dangerous-claims-widely-shared-facebook


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-04-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking 5 claims by Kenya’s deputy president Ruto including on corruption and land
review_date: 2019-05-21T13:52:11Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
None of [the dropped ministers] even made it to court because the allegations that were made [against them] did not have any basis.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-5-claims-kenyas-deputy-president-ruto-including-corruption-and


text: Photos of ‘police brutality in Kutus’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-04T00:00:00Z
title: Photos of ‘police brutality in Kutus’ taken from Kenya’s 2016 Nairobi protests
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photos-police-brutality-kutus-taken-kenyas-2016-nairobi


claimant: Home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and a Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-01T09:23:08Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa is not obliged to give citizenship to children born in South Africa whose parents are foreign nationals.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/foreign-nationals-kids-born-south-africa-can-be-denied-citizenship-foreigners

title:
Foreign nationals’ kids born in South Africa can be denied citizenship, but foreigners may work in government


text: “Today KSh75 [out of every KSh100] goes to debt service.”
claimant: Jimmy Wanjigi
claim_date: 2021-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T12:23:16Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyan-billionaire-jimi-wanjigi-wants-be-president-were-his-tv-interview-facts

title:
Kenyan billionaire Jimi Wanjigi wants to be president, but were his TV interview facts on the money?


text: 27% of Nigerian women between 15 and 49 are victims of female genital mutilation or cutting.
claimant: The Guardian
claim_date: 2018-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian women and genital mutilation
review_date: 2018-03-16T14:42:08Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-more-quarter-nigerian-women-still-subjected-genital-mutilation


text: According to Unicef, malaria kills one child every 30 seconds in Africa.
claimant: China Global Television Network
claim_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: Still wrong: malaria doesn’t kill a child every 30 seconds in Africa
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/still-wrong-malaria-doesnt-kill-child-every-30-seconds-africa


text: All Progressive Congress rep spent N10 million on small wooden bridge in Nigeria
claimant: Nigeria Politics Today
claim_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
title: All Progressives Congress rep didn’t spend N10 million on small wooden bridge in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/all-progressives-congress-rep-didnt-spend-n10-million-small


claimant: Ventures Africa, a Nigerian online news platform
claim_date: 2021-12-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-02-23T12:39:38Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“According to Kenya’s auditor general, the country may lose Mombasa port if it defaults on loan repayment.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerian-online-publication-botches-kenyas-china-debt-numbers-right-about-port

title:
Nigerian online publication botches Kenya’s China debt numbers, but is right about port seizure warning


claimant: South African national programme director for Unesco, Buyiswa Mpini
claim_date: 2021-06-29T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Unesco’s claims about teenage pregnancy in South Africa
review_date: 2021-07-21T10:14:02Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
According to the latest statistics 121,000 [teen] pregnancies were experienced in our country in 2019 …

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-unescos-claims-about-teenage-pregnancy-south-africa


text: Over 80% of all diseases in the world are transmitted by hand.
claimant: Aproko Doctor
claim_date: 2020-07-07T12:00:00Z
title: Are 80% of all diseases transmitted by hand? Nigerian doctor's claim is misleading
review_date: 2020-08-06T06:22:12Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-80-all-diseases-transmitted-hand-nigerian-doctors-claim-misleading


text: 80% of Johannesburg’s inner city is inhabited by foreign nationals
claimant: Bongani Mkongi
claim_date: 2019-07-14T12:00:00Z
title: Unproven that Hillbrow, nearby areas are ‘80% foreign national’ as claimed in much-shared video
review_date: 2019-09-04T07:46:14Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/unproven-hillbrow-nearby-areas-are-80-foreign-national-claimed-much-shared


text: Vitamin B17 in apple seeds cures cancer
claimant: Health and Life
claim_date: 2019-03-21T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Vitamin B17’ in apple seeds doesn’t cure cancer – and isn’t a vitamin
review_date: 2019-04-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/vitamin-b17-apple-seeds-doesnt-cure-cancer-and-isnt-vitamin


text: Photo of ‘cornered’ passengers at Kenya’s main airport during aviation workers strike
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-06T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of ‘cornered’ passengers at Kenya’s main airport not related to current strike
review_date: 2019-03-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/photo-cornered-passengers-kenyas-main-airport-not-related-current-strike


claimant: Christian charity World Vision International
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Global charity patches together stat about African teen lockdown pregnancies
review_date: 2021-02-25T08:16:28Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
As many as one million girls across sub-Saharan Africa may be blocked from returning to school due to pregnancy during Covid-19 school closures.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/global-charity-patches-together-stat-about-african-teen-lockdown-pregnancies


text: Obesity affects two in every five Kenyans.
claimant: The Daily Nation newspaper
claim_date: 2020-07-27T12:00:00Z
title: Covid-19: Widely read newspaper incorrect that 2 in 5 Kenyans are obese
review_date: 2020-08-19T07:49:01Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/covid-19-widely-read-newspaper-incorrect-2-5-kenyans-are-obese


text: George Soros said he funded “black hate groups” to destroy the US
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, George Soros did not say he funded “black hate groups” to destroy the US
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-george-soros-did-not-say-he-funded-black-hate-groups


claimant: Oyo state governor Seyi Makinde
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, Oyo state’s own funds grew as governor claimed – here’s why this matters for Nigeria
review_date: 2021-09-01T10:02:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Within the first two years [of taking office], we increased internally generated revenue by close to N15 billion.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-oyo-states-own-funds-grew-governor-claimed-heres-why-matters-nigeria


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2018-05-02T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyattas-2018-state-nation-address-fact-checked
title: Uhuru Kenyatta's 2018 State of The Nation Address fact-checked
review_date: 2018-09-20T08:04:47Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
When I assumed office as President, we promised to tarmac 10,000 kms roads across the country; we are on target having completed 3,000 kms to-date and with a further 5,000 kms under construction.


text: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has been admitted to Nairobi Hospital for an eye ailment
claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2019-01-02T00:00:00Z
title: HOAX ALERT: Kenya’s President Kenyatta not in hospital, as fake news site claims
review_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-kenyas-president-kenyatta-not-hospital-fake-news


text: A bill to create a debt regulatory institution has been pending in Parliament for nearly one year
claimant: Musalia Mudavadi
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Kenyan politician Musalia Mudavadi's speech at his party’s delegates conference
review_date: 2022-01-28T05:24:07Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-kenyan-politician-musalia-mudavadis-speech-his-partys-delegates


text: More children die per day due to diarrhoeal diseases than from AIDS, malaria and measles combined.
claimant: Dettol
claim_date: 2017-10-24T12:00:00Z
title: Handwashing 101: Dettol’s disease-busting claims under the microscope
review_date: 2017-12-14T07:44:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/handwashing-101-dettols-disease-busting-claims-under-microscope


text: Spekboom can sequester more than four tonnes of carbon dioxide per year per hectare planted
claimant: Getaway Magazine
claim_date: 2019-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-03-03T12:14:19Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-spekboom-isnt-more-effective-amazon-rainforest-sucking-carbon-out-atmosphere

title:
No, spekboom isn’t more effective than the Amazon rainforest at ‘sucking carbon’ out of the atmosphere


text: Nigeria’s voting population is six times smaller than India’s
claimant: Kingsley Moghalu
claim_date: 2018-08-06T12:00:00Z
title: Checked: Two claims about the ‘astronomical’ cost of Nigeria’s election
review_date: 2018-09-05T09:28:18Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checked-two-claims-about-astronomical-cost-nigerias-election


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-09T06:29:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Transnet will soon ask for proposals from private partners for the Durban container terminals, within the next few months, which will enable partnerships to be in place at terminals by October of 2022.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/2022-sona-promises-south-africas-cyril-ramaphosa-zero-two-state-utilities-eskom

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


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
title: No, pricking fingers won’t save stroke victim – get medical attention instead
review_date: 2019-07-03T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Revive a stroke victim and prevent them getting brain damage by pricking their fingers and ear lobe with a needle

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-pricking-fingers-wont-save-stroke-victim-get-medical


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya, chair of Kenya’s council of governors
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-kenyan-governors-claims-progress
title: Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress
review_date: 2020-12-01T08:20:04Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
[The counties are striving] to reach the 10% [allocation to agriculture] recommended by the Malabo declaration.


text: Crimes in Cross River state represent 1.1% of the total crime in Nigeria
claimant: Ben Ayade
claim_date: 2019-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Governor claims Nigeria’s Cross River state among the safest
review_date: 2019-07-18T10:37:23Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-cross-river-state-among-safest-governor-claimed


claimant: Johannes Wessels
claim_date: 2019-04-08T12:00:00Z
title: Do eight professionals leave South Africa for every one that comes in?
review_date: 2019-05-22T13:31:43Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“For every one professional immigrating to South Africa, eight professionals are leaving our shores.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-eight-professionals-leave-south-africa-every-one-comes


claimant: Chinese state run news agency Xinhua
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, Kenya’s elephants have increased in last 30 years but only census will plug data gaps
review_date: 2021-06-29T08:06:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Kenya's elephant population has gradually increased at an annual rate of approximately 2.8% over the last three decades amid declining poaching.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-kenyas-elephants-have-increased-last-30-years-only-census-will-plug-data


claimant: The Buhari Media Organisation
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Checking three claims by pro-Buhari group about outgoing Nigerian president’s record
review_date: 2022-05-03T08:16:07Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Over 12 million households have benefitted from the National Social Investment Programme in the past five years.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checking-three-claims-pro-buhari-group-about-outgoing-nigerian-presidents


claimant: Business Day newspaper editorial
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's education system 'dire'? Grading claims in Business Day editorial
review_date: 2022-04-06T10:41:45Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“N55.3 trillion was allocated to the education sector by the federal government between 2016 and 2021.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-education-system-dire-grading-claims-business-day-editorial


text: Nigerians are the biggest consumers of champagne on planet earth, more than the French who make it.
claimant: Minister Audu Ogbeh
claim_date: 2019-04-09T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Life-loving Nigerians’ not among world’s top 20 champagne drinkers, as unhappy minister claimed
review_date: 2019-04-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/life-loving-nigerians-not-among-worlds-top-20-champagne-drinkers-unhappy


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-11T00:00:00Z
title: Ignore this bogus heart remedy. Here are better tips for a healthy heart
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Drinking a mixture of apple vinegar and the juice of lemon, ginger and garlic “naturally” opens “the veins of the heart”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/ignore-bogus-heart-remedy-here-are-better-tips-healthy-heart


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-14T00:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/churchill-quote-what-people-think-you-not-churchill
title: Churchill quote on what people think of you is not by Churchill
review_date: 2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Winston Churchill said “When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realise no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.”


text: Every single person with cancer has pH that’s too acidic
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Every single person with cancer has pH that’s too acidic’? Meme gets old science backwards
review_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/every-single-person-cancer-has-ph-thats-too-acidic-meme-gets


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:15:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We experienced an increase in the number of functional health facilities growing from 9,858 to 10,820 in 2018 across all counties.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/claims-kenyas-counties-fact-checking-2019-state-devolution-address


text: We have got millions of Zimbabweans living in South Africa.
claimant: Lindiwe Zulu
claim_date: 2019-01-22T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Millions’ of Zimbabweans living in South Africa? Data doesn’t back claim
review_date: 2019-02-05T10:07:41Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/millions-zimbabweans-living-south-africa-data-doesnt-back-claim


text: UJ student photoshopped a winning lotto ticket and collected millions, before skipping the country
claimant: Xpouzar.com
claim_date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
title: UJ student who ‘robbed South African lottery of millions’ does not exist
review_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/uj-student-who-robbed-south-african-lottery-millions-does


text: 30,000 children trafficked each year in South Africa
claimant: South African Department of Home Affairs
claim_date: 2015-07-13T12:00:00Z
title: No new evidence that 30,000 children are trafficked in South Africa each year
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:40:14Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-new-evidence-30000-children-are-trafficked-south-africa-each-year


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-03-25T00:00:00Z
title: No, zookeeper not arrested for molesting 500-pound gorilla – it’s satire
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Zookeeper Akimbo Obwe’bwe from San Diego was arrested after trying to molest a 500-pound male gorilla.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-zookeeper-not-arrested-molesting-500-pound-gorilla-its


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-04-26T12:00:00Z
title: Are you affected by ‘aphelion phenomenon’? Almost certainly not
review_date: 2022-04-26T05:31:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Facebook post warns that because of the “aphelion phenomenon”, when Earth is the furthest from the sun, “we will experience cold weather more than the previous cold weather, which will have an impact on flu, cough, shortness of breath, etc”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/are-you-affected-aphelion-phenomenon-almost-certainly-not


text: Schoolkids eating new ‘strawberry’ drug
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z
title: Alarming message about Nigerian schoolkids eating new ‘strawberry’ drug a hoax
review_date: 2018-11-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/alarming-message-about-nigerian-schoolkids-eating-new


text: Epsom salts can be used as a burn treatment.
claimant: Barbara O’Neill
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Curing’ depression, burns and cancer: Why you shouldn’t trust these evergreen health hoaxes
review_date: 2023-07-18T08:13:57Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/curing-depression-burns-and-cancer-why-you-shouldnt-trust-these-evergreen


text: Photo of Europeans fleeing to North Africa during second world war
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-07-02T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/europeans-fleeing-north-africa-during-second-world-war-no

title:
Europeans fleeing to North Africa during second world war? No, photos of Albanian mass exodus to Italy in 1991


claimant: President Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2020-06-12T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Buhari’s Democracy Day claims
review_date: 2020-07-02T14:37:04Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘The GDP grew from 1.91% in 2018 to 2.27% in 2019 but declined to 1.87% in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of the decline in global economic activities due to the Covid-19 pandemic’.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-buharis-democracy-day-claims-about-his-economic-achievements


claimant: Jimmy Wanjigi
claim_date: 2021-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T12:23:18Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In 2013 president Uhuru Kenyatta won that election. Didn’t you see the difference in votes? The difference was 800,000 votes.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyan-billionaire-jimi-wanjigi-wants-be-president-were-his-tv-interview-facts

title:
Kenyan billionaire Jimi Wanjigi wants to be president, but were his TV interview facts on the money?


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-02-13T12:00:00Z
title: How Kenyatta mangled his numbers on Kenyan counties’ development spend
review_date: 2019-03-05T12:04:46Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In the 2017/2018 financial year alone, as an example, our county governments spent approximately 87.3% of their entire budgets on recurrent expenditure, leaving only a meagre 12.7% for development

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/how-kenyatta-mangled-his-numbers-kenyan-counties-development-spend


text: Nigeria’s acting chief justice is unqualified to practise law
claimant: Nigerian lawyer
claim_date: 2019-01-28T00:00:00Z
title: Claim that Nigeria’s acting chief justice is unqualified to practise law is false
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/claim-nigerias-acting-chief-justice-unqualified-practise-law


text: MSMEs create around 75% of the jobs in the economy
claimant: Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Kenyatta on Kenya’s small businesses – it’s a data ‘Tower of Babel’
review_date: 2020-03-03T08:21:07Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-president-kenyatta-kenyas-small-businesses-its-data-tower-babel


text: Vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking.
claimant: IOL
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-06-20T06:24:02Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/vaping-95-less-harmful-smoking-and-most-effective-way-smokers-quit-heres-what

title:
Vaping 95% less harmful than smoking and the most effective way for smokers to quit? Here’s what the research says about popular claims


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all in one photo? Cool - but photoshopped
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
You may be cool, but you’ll never be Bruce Lee, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix all hangin’ at the same freakin’ party

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/bruce-lee-jim-morrison-and-jimi-hendrix-all-one-photo-cool


text: South Africa has only 800 ICU beds in the whole country.
claimant: WhatsApp message
claim_date: 2020-04-09T12:00:00Z
title: South Africa has more than 800 ICU beds - but exactly how many is unclear
review_date: 2020-04-09T06:25:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africa-has-more-800-icu-beds-exactly-how-many-unclear


claimant: Julius Malema, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-07T06:55:55Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Various claims about the number of students who wrote matric in 2022 and the number of available spaces at universities.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/debating-state-nation-south-african-mps-claims-about-crime-education-service

title:
Debating the state of the nation: South African MPs' claims about crime, education, service delivery and more scrutinised


text: There are 15 million child workers in Nigeria.
claimant: Permanent secretary of Nigeria’s ministry of labour and employment, Kachollom Daju
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-04-12T09:15:36Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-there-15-million-child-workers-nigeria-senior-government-official-cites-22

title:
Are there 15 million child workers in Nigeria? Senior government official cites 22-year-old data – figure likely higher


claimant: Peoples Democratic Party
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: #LagosRace2023: Fact-checking claims by candidates seeking to govern Nigeria’s economic capital
review_date: 2023-02-08T09:59:36Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Lagos state has not implemented the 65 years retirement policy for teachers, signed by the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, in 2020 ...”


text: Vaping is 95% safer than smoking
claimant: Twisp SA
claim_date: 2017-07-09T12:00:00Z
title: No scientific credibility to claim that vaping is 95% safer than traditional cigarettes
review_date: 2017-07-10T14:55:43Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-scientific-credibility-claim-vaping-95-safer-traditional-cigarettes


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-08T06:54:33Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Over the past five years, we’ve made significant progress with the provision of infrastructure. More than R1.3 trillion has been invested to build [infrastructure including electrifying] more than a million homes…


text: Transparent creatures in tap water
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
title: No ‘transparent creatures’ in tap water – but boiling water first is still good advice
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Checked
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-transparent-creatures-tap-water-boiling-water-first-still


claimant: Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP)
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-13T08:09:15Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“I spent more than the 25% Unesco recommendation funding for education while serving as Kano governor.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/oil-money-guns-fact-checking-nigerian-presidential-hopefuls-claims-town-hall-tv

title:
Oil, money, guns – fact-checking Nigerian presidential hopefuls’ claims on town hall TV series The Candidates


text: Photo of kids sitting in flooded mud classroom in Kenya
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-11T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of kids sitting in flooded mud classroom from Kenya, not Nigeria’s Bayelsa state
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photo-kids-sitting-flooded-mud-classroom-kenya-not-nigerias


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, more than two people know Coca-Cola’s secret formula
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
There are only two people alive who know the recipe of Coca-Cola … and they aren’t allowed to travel on the same plane, in case it crashes.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-more-two-people-know-coca-colas-secret-formula


text: More than 9 million eligible voters aren’t registered for South Africa’s 2019 elections
claimant: Business Tech
claim_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, more than 9 million eligible voters aren’t registered for South Africa’s 2019 elections
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-more-9-million-eligible-voters-arent-registered-south


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: Busting four false claims about menstruation, cancer and women’s bodies
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Women’s bodies “should not be knocked or hit by hard objects, especially the abdomen” because it could cause them to vomit blood, and the uterus could be injured.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/busting-four-false-claims-about-menstruation-cancer-and


text: South African freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangu was killed by ‘the man who started the DA’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-06T00:00:00Z
title: No, South African freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangu was not killed by ‘the man who started the DA’
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-south-african-freedom-fighter-solomon-mahlangu-was-not


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta and Andrew Wakahiu
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-28T06:38:26Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Kibaki left me an economy worth KSh5 trillion. Today the one I hand over my government to, I will leave an economy worth KSh13 trillion”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/president-kenyatta-did-send-billions-mt-kenya-counties-misled-how-much-kenyas

title:
President Kenyatta did send billions to Mt Kenya counties, but misled on how much Kenya’s economy has grown under his watch


text: “98% of SAA’s R24 billion procurement goes to white owned companies while black owned get 2%”.
claimant: Fikile Mbalula
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: 98% of South African Airways’ spending didn’t go to white-owned companies
review_date: 2017-06-23T14:21:44Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/98-south-african-airways-spending-didnt-go-white-owned-companies


text: “Vaccines have never been used to control outbreaks.”
claimant: Kenya Catholic Doctors Association
claim_date: 2021-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Catholic doctors in Kenya pushed startling claims about Covid-19. Here’s why they’re wrong
review_date: 2021-03-10T08:47:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/catholic-doctors-kenya-pushed-startling-claims-about-covid-19-heres-why-theyre


text: South Africa is the most dangerous country in the world to drive in.
claimant: eNCA
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-06-14T07:24:54Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africa-most-dangerous-country-world-drive-testing-widely-reported-claim

title:
South Africa ‘most dangerous country in the world to drive in’? Testing widely reported claim by driver education company


claimant: Message circulating on social media
claim_date: 2021-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: State of emergency would not strip Ramaphosa’s powers
review_date: 2021-07-23T09:10:58Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
If a state of emergency is declared in South Africa the president will be stripped of his powers, which will go to the military. Cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will, in terms of the disaster management act, “take over”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-emergency-would-not-strip-ramaphosas-powers-and-make-dlamini-zuma


text: Cold water, cucumbers, ice cream, shampoo and hard objects should be avoided during menstruation
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-07-12T08:12:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-you-dont-need-avoid-these-foods-and-activities-during-menstruation-claims

title:
No, you don’t need to avoid these foods and activities during menstruation, claims in viral post are ‘outrageous’


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-03T00:00:00Z
title: Samuel L Jackson quote on overpaid rappers and underpaid teachers is fake
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Samuel L Jackson said “Maybe if we under-paid these modern mumble rappers and over-paid teachers, we’d have smarter kids and less shi**y music”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/samuel-l-jackson-quote-overpaid-rappers-and-underpaid


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-05-18T00:00:00Z
title: Busting four false claims about menstruation, cancer and women’s bodies
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Women mustn’t eat cucumbers when they’re menstruating, the post says, because “the sap present in the cucumber can block some menstruation (blood waste) in the uterine wall”, which could cause barrenness.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/busting-four-false-claims-about-menstruation-cancer-and


text: Strange aquatic creature found in a dam between Kericho and Bomet
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Facebook photo of ‘strange aquatic creature’ not from Kenya
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/facebook-photo-strange-aquatic-creature-not-kenya


text: Thabo Mbeki called for Zinzdi Mandela’s prosecution for tweets on land in South Africa
claimant: Newsoweto
claim_date: 2019-06-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, Thabo Mbeki did not call for Zinzdi Mandela’s prosecution for tweets on land in South Africa
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-thabo-mbeki-did-not-call-zinzdi-mandelas-prosecution


claimant: Anonymously shared on Facebook
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, your life insurance is not ‘null and void’ if you get a Covid-19 vaccine
review_date: 2021-06-17T13:36:26Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Receiving the Covid-19 vaccine renders life insurance invalid, even if cause of death is unrelated to the disease or vaccine.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-your-life-insurance-not-null-and-void-if-you-get-covid-19-vaccine


text: Bill Gates has pledged $2bn to Biafra ‘when it becomes a nation’
claimant: The Pointer News
claim_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Gates has not pledged $2bn to Biafra ‘when it becomes a nation’
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/bill-gates-has-not-pledged-2bn-biafra-when-it-becomes-nation


text: LOL stands for ‘Lucifer our lord’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: LOL stands for ‘Lucifer our lord’? Hoax meme has us laughing out loud!
review_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/lol-stands-lucifer-our-lord-hoax-meme-has-us-laughing-out


text: The skeleton of Goliath found in Jerusalem.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, huge skeleton is a sculpture – not remains of biblical giant Goliath
review_date: 2019-07-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-huge-skeleton-sculpture-not-remains-biblical-giant


text: 65% of [city] water goes to formal residential customers
claimant: City of Cape Town
claim_date: 2017-07-18T12:00:00Z
title: Do formal residents use 65% of Cape Town’s water, with half going to gardens & pools?
review_date: 2017-08-23T11:32:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-formal-residents-use-65-cape-towns-water-half-going-gardens-pools


text: President Buhari invented Bukhari Rice, an Arabian dish
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, President Buhari didn’t invent Bukhari Rice, an Arabian dish
review_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-president-buhari-didnt-invent-bukhari-rice-arabian-dish


text: Mega Oxygen boosts oxygen level and cures Covid-19
claimant: Oxygen Products
claim_date: 2021-04-06T12:00:00Z
title: No proof Mega Oxygen boosts oxygen levels or cures Covid-19, as viral Facebook video claims
review_date: 2021-06-29T13:10:33Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-proof-mega-oxygen-boosts-oxygen-levels-or-cures-covid-19-viral-facebook


text: ‘Million-shilling bridge’ in Kenya’s Kisii county
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
title: Image of ‘million-shilling bridge’ in Kenya’s Kisii county is photoshopped
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/image-million-shilling-bridge-kenyas-kisii-county


claimant: Obiageli Ezekwesili
claim_date: 2018-11-28T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Project Rescue Nigeria’: Fact-checking Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential manifesto
review_date: 2019-01-16T13:01:21Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria currently has 187 policemen for every 100,000 Nigerians, the UN recommends a ratio of 300 police officers to 100,000 people.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/project-rescue-nigeria-fact-checking-oby-ezekwesilis-presidential-manifesto


claimant: Kenya Catholic Doctors Association
claim_date: 2021-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Catholic doctors in Kenya pushed startling claims about Covid-19. Here’s why they’re wrong
review_date: 2021-03-10T08:47:19Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We know for a fact that there are drugs that have been repurposed and used effectively to treat Covid-19.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/catholic-doctors-kenya-pushed-startling-claims-about-covid-19-heres-why-theyre


claimant: Sicily Kariuki
claim_date: 2019-05-21T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, Kenya’s health budget has risen 30% in last two fiscal years
review_date: 2019-07-04T08:52:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Kenyan government has increased the health sector budget by more than 30% in the last two fiscal years.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-kenyas-health-budget-has-risen-30-last-two-fiscal-years


text: South Africa has 3.7 million orphans
claimant: Cadbury South Africa
claim_date: 2019-05-14T12:00:00Z
title: Cadbury South Africa’s 3.7 million orphans claim based on old data
review_date: 2019-06-04T09:50:32Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/cadbury-south-africas-37-million-orphans-claim-based-old-data


claimant: Yemi Osinbajo
claim_date: 2019-01-16T12:00:00Z
title: Battle of the titans: Fact-checking arch-rivals in race for Nigeria’s presidency
review_date: 2019-02-14T07:25:44Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria earned US$383 billion from oil revenues in the four years preceding our government but there were no savings.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/battle-titans-fact-checking-arch-rivals-race-nigerias-presidency


claimant: Musalia Mudavadi, party leader, Amani National Congress
claim_date: 2020-06-11T12:00:00Z
title: It’s a crisis! Fact-checking top opposition leader’s claims about Kenya’s 2020 budget
review_date: 2020-07-08T07:53:13Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We are dealing with a situation where the amount set aside for repayment of the debt is much higher than all the money that Yatani is putting together for development expenditure.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/its-crisis-fact-checking-top-opposition-leaders-claims-about-kenyas-2020-budget


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-16T07:19:48Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Our immediate neighbour Lesotho has gone ahead in the industrialisation of cannabis in leaps and bounds.”


text: Death penalty returning to South Africa
claimant: Hinnews South Africa
claim_date: 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z
title: Death penalty returning to South Africa? Chance 'close to zero'
review_date: 2018-10-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/death-penalty-returning-south-africa-chance-close-zero


text: South Africa is considered to be on the ‘Tier 2 Watchlist’ for human trafficking
claimant: Lerato Kganyago, South African television presenter and DJ
claim_date: 2020-09-14T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking influential TV presenter’s claims about child trafficking in South Africa
review_date: 2020-09-22T10:35:16Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-influential-tv-presenters-claims-about-child-trafficking-south


text: About 80% of same-sex marriages in SA are by Afrikaans speakers.
claimant: Wikipedia
claim_date: 2017-09-21T12:00:00Z
title: No way to verify whether 80% of same-sex marriages in SA are by Afrikaans speakers
review_date: 2017-10-09T12:58:08Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-way-verify-whether-80-same-sex-marriages-sa-are-afrikaans-speakers


text: Giveaways on “koop en verkoop” Facebook group
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-12-01T12:00:00Z
title: Don’t trust suspiciously generous giveaways on Afrikaans koop-en-verkoop Facebook groups
review_date: 2022-12-14T11:52:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/dont-trust-suspiciously-generous-giveaways-afrikaans-koop-en


claimant: Online Graphic
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/police-violence-south-africa-what-do-numbers-show
title: Police violence in South Africa: what do the numbers show?
review_date: 2020-09-14T07:17:38Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In 2018, South African police service officers were accused of 217 cases of torture and 3,661 cases of assault


text: Kenyans expelled from Somalia after diplomatic row
claimant: Jubilee Party Forum
claim_date: 2019-02-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kenyans haven’t been expelled from Somalia after diplomatic row
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-kenyans-havent-been-expelled-somalia-after-diplomatic-row


text: In Kenya, chances of women living to more than 100 years are almost three times that of men.
claimant: The Standard newspaper
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Are women three times as likely to live to over 100 than men in Kenya? Not exactly
review_date: 2020-04-29T06:56:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-women-three-times-likely-live-over-100-men-kenya-not-exactly


text: Women with bigger butts have smarter kids
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-27T00:00:00Z
title: Women with bigger butts have smarter kids? No, claim exaggerates Oxford University research
review_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/women-bigger-butts-have-smarter-kids-no-claim-exaggerates


claimant: Neem Foundation
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Fraudulent and misleading’: why pricey herbal mix touted as a remedy for HIV falls flat
review_date: 2023-02-06T09:48:46Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Immunodeficiency refers to poor immune system lacking ability to fight infections and diseases. Therefore, HIV infects people with poor immune system.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fraudulent-and-misleading-why-pricey-herbal-mix-touted-remedy-hiv-falls-flat


text: Elephant carrying thirsty lion cub
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: Viral Facebook post of elephant carrying thirsty lion cub is April Fools prank
review_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/viral-facebook-post-elephant-carrying-thirsty-lion-cub-april


text: Dr Roselyn Akombe, Kenya’s former electoral commissioner is dead
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-24T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/rumours-roselyn-akombes-death-are-false-kenyas-former

title:
Rumours of Roselyn Akombe’s death are false – Kenya’s former electoral commissioner alive, and tweeting


text: Trade between Africa and China has grown rapidly, reaching US$166 billion in 2011.
claimant: Mail & Guardian newspaper
claim_date: 2020-10-19T12:00:00Z
title: Donald Trump’s ‘foreign policy’: Fact-checking US$166 bn China-Africa trade claim
review_date: 2020-11-03T06:59:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/donald-trumps-foreign-policy-fact-checking-us166-bn-china-africa-trade-claim


text: “Today our economy is larger than it was before the pandemic.”
claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-02-09T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-10T11:51:10Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/time-crisis-fact-checking-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-2023-state

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


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:48Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The agricultural sector [contributed] 22.35% and 23.78% to the overall GDP in the first and second quarters of 2021.”


claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
review_date: 2021-06-30T07:43:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa is one of the countries in the world that spends the most on education [as a percentage of the budget].


text: Tourism employs about 1.6 million people
claimant: Najib Balala, tourism minister
claim_date: 2020-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking cabinet minister about tourism’s value to Kenyan economy
review_date: 2020-10-12T10:04:52Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-cabinet-minister-about-tourisms-value-kenyan-economy


text: Kanye West scored 106 points against wheelchair basketball team
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/dont-fall-satire-reused-click-bait-kanye-didnt-score-106

title:
Don’t fall for satire reused as click-bait... Kanye didn’t score 106 points against wheelchair basketball team


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-04-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-nation-2019-did-kenyatta-get-his-facts-right
title: State of the Nation 2019: Did Kenyatta get his facts right?
review_date: 2019-04-09T09:56:25Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Since its inception 3.881 million tonnes of cargo have been transported on the standard-gauge railway line.”


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-23T00:00:00Z
title: Wind turbines – correctly placed – produce far more energy than they take to build
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
A windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate such energy as was invested in building it.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/wind-turbines-correctly-placed-produce-far-more-energy-they


claimant: The British Broadcasting Corporation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-08T04:12:20Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Mr Tinubu's use of technology to improve tax collection in Lagos [state] was remarkable, increasing revenue by more than 400% in eight years.”


text: Woman about to be stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/woman-about-be-stoned-death-under-sharia-law-iran-photo-2003

title:
Woman about to be stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran? Photo from 2003 protest in South America


text: Kenya’s education ministry is planning to make university students wear uniforms
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kenya’s education ministry isn’t planning to make university students wear uniforms
review_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-kenyas-education-ministry-isnt-planning-make-university


text: Eat 10-12 almonds, the equivalent of two aspirins, next time you have a headache
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Almonds for headaches instead of aspirin? Doctors recommend better alternatives
review_date: 2022-04-22T08:35:57Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/almonds-headaches-instead-aspirin-doctors-recommend-better-alternatives


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z
title: Baby factory in Lagos? No, decade-old photo of Tanzanian hospital
review_date: 2019-05-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Photo of baby factory in Lagos, yet to be discovered by the police, “where pregnant women are gathered in a small room. After they give birth, the babies will be sold out for money Rituals. And after a month, some men will came in and impregnate the women again.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/baby-factory-lagos-no-decade-old-photo-tanzanian-hospital


claimant: Butwaa
claim_date: 2019-05-21T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence powerful Kenyan minister urged debtors to default on popular mobile apps
review_date: 2019-06-26T15:27:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We are urging the public not to clear the existing loans until a case is determined on how the mobile lending apps acquired licences to operate.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-powerful-kenyan-minister-urged-debtors-default-popular-mobile-apps


text: Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his own children
claimant: Transcend.org
claim_date: 2018-02-16T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax claim that ‘Bill Gates refused to vaccinate his own children’
review_date: 2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-claim-bill-gates-refused-vaccinate-his-own-children


text: In 2 and a half years in power, Buhari has not even built one nursery school.
claimant: Rene Omokri
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Has Nigeria’s president not built even a nursery school, as Jonathan aide claimed?
review_date: 2018-01-16T06:01:31Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-nigerias-president-not-built-even-nursery-school-jonathan-aide-claimed


claimant: Barbara O’Neill
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Curing’ depression, burns and cancer: Why you shouldn’t trust these evergreen health hoaxes
review_date: 2023-07-18T08:13:55Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, as a result of certain foods and substances.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/curing-depression-burns-and-cancer-why-you-shouldnt-trust-these-evergreen


text: Ghanaian couples have to wear wedding outfit for divorce
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-04-21T00:00:00Z
title: Ugandan photo used in claim that Ghanaian couples have to wear wedding outfit for divorce
review_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/ugandan-photo-used-claim-ghanaian-couples-have-wear-wedding


text: Only 8.6% of rape perpetrators are convicted
claimant: Rape Crisis
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Are 40% of South African women raped in their lifetime and only 8.6% of perpetrators jailed?
review_date: 2020-03-23T10:15:03Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-40-south-african-women-raped-their-lifetime-and-only-86-perpetrators-jailed


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:15Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“My administration increased the equitable share allocation to county governments from the constitutionally mandated 15% to 32%.”


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-07T19:45:36Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We have launched the Youth Employment Service, which is placing unemployed youth in paid internships in companies across the country.


text: “Nigeria’s latest maternal mortality ratio is 512 per 100,000 live births.”
claimant: Punch newspaper
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking four claims about antenatal care and pregnancy-related deaths in Nigeria
review_date: 2022-09-07T07:39:09Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-four-claims-about-antenatal-care-and-pregnancy-related-deaths


text: 700,000 public servants consume half of Kenya taxpayers money.
claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2017-12-05T12:00:00Z
title: Do just 700,000 public workers gobble up half of Kenya’s taxes, as Ruto said?
review_date: 2017-12-13T13:40:33Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-just-700000-public-workers-gobble-half-kenyas-taxes-ruto-said


text: 77% of Nigerian women use skin lighteners
claimant: International media
claim_date: 2018-11-21T12:00:00Z
title: Three in four Nigerian women use skin-lighteners? No data supports claim
review_date: 2019-04-18T10:55:38Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/three-four-nigerian-women-use-skin-lighteners-no-data-supports-claim


text: Stroke accounts for up to eight out of 10 neurological hospital admissions
claimant: Prof Abayomi Ogun
claim_date: 2019-10-29T12:00:00Z
title: Campaigner in hit and miss with facts about Nigeria’s stroke burden
review_date: 2020-01-13T06:43:30Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/campaigner-hit-and-miss-facts-about-nigerias-stroke-burden


text: South African police are not allowed to shoot back when they are shot at.
claimant: Kenneth Meshoe, leader of the African Christian Democratic Party
claim_date: 2021-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: No Kenneth Meshoe, police are allowed to shoot in self-defence, just like other South Africans
review_date: 2021-08-31T09:10:54Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-kenneth-meshoe-police-are-allowed-shoot-self-defence-just-other-south


text: About 50% of global mining deaths occur in South Africa
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: South Africa doesn't account for 50% mining deaths
review_date: 2021-07-28T07:19:30Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-south-africa-does-not-account-50-global-mining-deaths


text: Jobs for 1.1 million young people are supported by the Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) scheme.
claimant: Tito Mboweni
claim_date: 2019-02-20T12:00:00Z
title: Does South Africa’s finance minister have his job creation numbers right?
review_date: 2019-03-13T10:16:05Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-south-africas-finance-minister-have-his-job-creation-numbers-right


claimant: President Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2020-06-12T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Buhari’s Democracy Day claims
review_date: 2020-07-02T14:43:33Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘Nigeria has risen by 25 places on the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking, from 146th to 131st.’


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2021-02-11T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/chickens-and-economy-fact-checking-ramaphosas-sona2021
title: Fact-checking Ramaphosa's #SONA2021
review_date: 2021-02-17T07:26:51Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Through the implementation of the poultry master plan the industry has invested R800 million to upgrade production. South Africa now produces an additional 1 million chickens every week.”


text: Nigeria is the third most terrorised country in the world
claimant: Peoples Democratic Party
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-07-07T06:17:32Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/pdp-rescue-verifying-three-claims-about-terrorism-and-jobs-nigerias-main

title:
PDP to the rescue? Verifying three claims about terrorism and jobs by Nigeria’s main opposition party


claimant: Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2020-04-08T12:00:00Z
title: Covid-19 pandemic: Fact-checking former Nigeria VP Abubakar’s claims about the economy
review_date: 2020-04-21T09:47:03Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The price of oil was lower when president Obasanjo and Abubakar assumed office on 29 May 1999 than it is today ...

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/covid-19-pandemic-fact-checking-former-nigeria-vp-abubakars-claims-about


claimant: Labour and productivity minister Dr Chris Ngige
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Has unemployment in Nigeria risen fourfold since 2015? On the trail of a cabinet minister's claim
review_date: 2023-04-18T06:54:36Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The unemployment rate in Nigeria rose to 9.9 per cent in 2015 as the administration came on board.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-unemployment-nigeria-risen-fourfold-2015-trail-cabinet-ministers-claim


text: Huduma Namba Kenya job ad
claimant: Parastatals Jobs in Kenya
claim_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Another scam: don’t fall for fake Huduma Namba Kenya job ad
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/another-scam-dont-fall-fake-huduma-namba-kenya-job-ad


text: Terrible damage to foot caused by ‘abusing and marching’ on Quran
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-07T00:00:00Z
title: No, terrible damage to foot not caused by ‘abusing and marching’ on Qur’an
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-terrible-damage-foot-not-caused-abusing-and-marching


text: Video of New Zealand mosque shooter beaten up in jail
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z
title: Video not of New Zealand mosque shooter beaten up in jail – it’s from Canada
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/video-not-new-zealand-mosque-shooter-beaten-jail-its-canada


claimant: President Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:19:46Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“There are currently almost one million students who are enrolled in higher education, up from 500,000 in 1994.”


claimant: Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/covid-19-and-economy-kenya-presidents-maths-doesnt-add
title: Covid-19 and the economy: Kenya president’s maths doesn’t add up
review_date: 2020-10-01T11:50:58Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Health experts have indicated that levels of the positivity rate countrywide have fallen from a high of 13% in June ...


text: Unicef research found 65% of females in Kibera slum traded sex for sanitary pads
claimant: The UK’s Independent newspaper
claim_date: 2018-09-15T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2018-10-24T09:53:31Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/65-females-kenyan-slum-traded-sex-sanitary-pads-unicef-uk-newspaper-pull-stat

title:
‘65% of females’ in Kenyan slum traded sex for sanitary pads? Unicef & UK newspaper pull stat from thin air


text: In Kenya we have less than 300 ICU beds.
claimant: Dr Alfred Mutua, governor of Machakos county
claim_date: 2021-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Are there less than 300 ICU beds in Kenya? Available data shows more
review_date: 2021-04-23T08:36:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-there-less-300-icu-beds-kenya-available-data-shows-more


text: Dr Robert Gallo ‘invented HIV’ to ‘wipe out the African race’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-15T00:00:00Z
title: African researchers dismiss claim that Gallo ‘invented HIV’ to ‘wipe out African race’
review_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/african-researchers-dismiss-claim-gallo-invented-hiv-wipe


text: Anibe Alexandra Odoma ‘kidnapped in Texas’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
title: False plea for help: Anibe Alexandra Odoma wasn’t ‘kidnapped in Texas’
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/false-plea-help-anibe-alexandra-odoma-wasnt-kidnapped-texas


text: Our country’s femicide rate has been increasing over the last five years.
claimant: David Mabuza
claim_date: 2018-08-24T12:00:00Z
title: Violence against South Africa’s women, children: verifying claims at a men’s summit
review_date: 2018-08-29T13:39:16Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/violence-against-south-africas-women-children-verifying-claims-mens-summit


claimant: Nigerian columnist Jerome-Mario Utomi
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: 100 pupils to a teacher? Fact-checking widely read claims about education in Nigeria
review_date: 2021-08-03T06:55:04Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The N671.07 billion allocated to the federal ministry of education included the statutory transfer for the Universal Basic Education Commission, which was N111.79 billion.


text: "One in three South African women buy skin bleaching creams"
claimant: Unreported World
claim_date: 2018-01-17T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Big business’: Do 1 in 3 South African women buy skin bleaching creams?
review_date: 2019-06-07T07:46:12Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/big-business-do-1-3-south-african-women-buy-skin-bleaching-creams


text: “... around 1.5 million people lost their jobs since the start of the pandemic”
claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: 'Highest ever' unemployment rate? Fact-checking two claims from the ANC's 110th birthday party
review_date: 2022-01-27T08:46:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/highest-ever-unemployment-rate-fact-checking-two-claims-ancs-110th-birthday


text: To date, nearly 7 million households have been connected to the grid and now have the electricity.
claimant: Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2017-02-17T12:00:00Z
title: Facts or alternative facts? Zuma's 10th State of the Nation Address checked
review_date: 2017-09-11T13:49:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/facts-or-alternative-facts-zumas-10th-state-nation-address-checked


claimant: Malawian newspaper the Maravi Post
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: What’s that stench? Investigating two claims about air pollution in South Africa
review_date: 2022-07-06T07:24:21Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
According to recent studies, high air pollution levels in Johannesburg have reduced life expectancy by 3.2 years.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/whats-stench-investigating-two-claims-about-air-pollution-south-africa


text: Meat with bubbles and white spots is infected with tuberculosis, and dangerous to eat.
claimant: WhatsApp message
claim_date: 2020-03-16T12:00:00Z
title: White spots in meat a sign of TB – but thorough cooking can make it safe
review_date: 2020-03-16T10:35:09Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/white-spots-meat-sign-tb-thorough-cooking-can-make-it-safe


text: Man selling human meat in Nairobi butchery
claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2018-11-05T00:00:00Z
title: HOAX ALERT: ‘Man selling human meat in Nairobi butchery’ story is false
review_date: 2018-12-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-man-selling-human-meat-nairobi-butchery-story


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-07T12:00:00Z
title: Semen washing to remove HIV not a new ‘medical breakthrough’
review_date: 2022-06-07T12:33:09Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Facebook post says a woman called “Lebo Moatshe” and has “successfully removed HIV from a sperm cell in a lab”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/semen-washing-remove-hiv-not-new-medical-breakthrough


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-kenya-presidents-2020-state-nation-address
title: Kenyan president’s 2020 state of the nation address
review_date: 2020-11-17T07:18:14Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
For the second year running Kenya has achieved a transition rate of 100% from primary to secondary school.


claimant: Tosin Abdulsalam
claim_date: 2020-07-28T12:00:00Z
title: Researcher highlights child lead poisoning from gold mining
review_date: 2020-09-15T13:26:25Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Reports as recent as 2017 reported 92% prevalence of blood lead poisoning in children from some villages in the Nigerian state of Zamfara.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigeria-turns-gold-mining-researcher-correct-about-high-levels-child-lead


text: South Africa’s President Ramaphosa benefiting from fuel price through stake in Engen
claimant: Democratic Alliance party Facebook fan page
claim_date: 2018-10-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, South Africa’s President Ramaphosa not ‘benefiting’ from fuel price through stake in Engen
review_date: 2018-10-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-south-africas-president-ramaphosa-not-benefiting-fuel


text: “… but in Senegal, it is about 15 times.”
claimant: The Vanguard newspaper and the deputy governor of Lagos state, Femi Hamzat
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-08T07:46:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/prices-15-times-higher-senegal-nigeria-daily-newspaper-misquotes-lagos-deputy

title:
Prices 15 times higher in Senegal than Nigeria? Daily newspaper misquotes Lagos deputy governor – who also got his facts wrong


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-need-fear-dangerous-insect
title: No need to fear this ‘dangerous’ insect
review_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Warning against stepping on a certain insect, or the entire sole of your foot will be punctured with holes.


text: Michael Duerr owns 57.5% of the South African Reserve Bank.
claimant: Mzwandile Masina
claim_date: 2019-06-05T12:00:00Z
title: German national Michael Duerr owns 0.5% – not 57.5% – of South Africa’s Reserve Bank
review_date: 2019-07-19T14:14:39Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/german-national-michael-duerr-owns-05-not-575-south-africas-reserve-bank


text: CNN used the same girl in three different refugee crisis photos
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, CNN didn’t use the same girl in three different refugee crisis photos
review_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-cnn-didnt-use-same-girl-three-different-refugee-crisis


text: South Africa loses over R800 million a day to corruption.
claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Jury still out on how much South Africa loses to corruption every day
review_date: 2022-08-03T07:35:31Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/jury-still-out-how-much-south-africa-loses-corruption-every-day


text: You vote with your index finger. Any vote cast with the thumb is a void vote.
claimant: News Now Nigeria
claim_date: 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
title: Thumb or index finger? Any fingerprint can be used to vote in Nigeria’s elections
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/thumb-or-index-finger-any-fingerprint-can-be-used-vote


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:39:58Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In the last eight years, my administration has doubled what the colonisers and the first three administrations did in 128 years.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyatta-fact-checking-kenyan-presidents-claims-about-his-legacy


claimant: National Super Alliance Nasa
claim_date: 2017-06-27T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-5-claims-kenya-nasa-opposition-manifesto
title: Fact-checked: 5 claims in Kenya Nasa opposition manifesto
review_date: 2017-07-06T17:25:35Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
While foreign debt has increased two-fold from KSh880 billion in 2013 to KSh1,890 billion this year, a growth of 115%


text: Receiving a phone call from a number with '666' in it will kill you
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-05-22T00:00:00Z
title: No, a phone call with 666 in the number will not kill you
review_date: 2019-04-09T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-phone-call-666-number-will-not-kill-you


text: UN, EU and George Soros giving migrants prepaid cards to ‘fund their way through Europe’
claimant: Diaspora Reporters
claim_date: 2018-11-03T00:00:00Z
title: Are the UN, EU and George Soros giving migrants prepaid cards to ‘fund their way through Europe’?
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/are-un-eu-and-george-soros-giving-migrants-prepaid-cards


text: Inhaling steam over 100°C will “disintegrate” the coronavirus, because it is “fat”.
claimant: Tanzanian president John Magufuli
claim_date: 2020-04-22T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president John Magufuli on Covid-19 treatment
review_date: 2020-05-06T07:23:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-tanzanian-president-john-magufuli-inhaling-steam-treat-covid-19


claimant: Jimmy Wanjigi
claim_date: 2021-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T12:23:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“When this government took over, do you know what the poverty rate was? It was 36%. Today it is 52%”


claimant: Billow Kerrow, former Kenyan senator
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-01T08:56:43Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The amount of revenue collected by the Kenya Revenue Authority is more than the amount of revenue collected by Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi combined.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/third-kenyas-budget-stolen-we-checked-former-senators-claim-about-much

title:
A third of Kenya’s budget stolen? We checked former senator’s claim about much-travelled corruption statistic


text: There are reports saying that 5G dosage of radiation is 10,000 times higher than [that of] 3G.
claimant: Martin Onovo
claim_date: 2020-05-05T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-05-20T11:55:50Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-nigerian-politicians-claims-about-new-mobile-phone-tech-radiation

title:
Fact-checking Nigerian politician’s claims about new mobile phone tech: Is radiation from 5G ‘10,000 times’ that from 3G?


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, rubbing orange peel on teeth could harm them – see a dentist instead
review_date: 2022-07-18T13:17:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Did you know?” it asks. “After you eat an orange, rub the orange peel on your teeth to clean your tooth enamel. It helps whitens teeth, fight bacteria and removes stains.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-rubbing-orange-peel-teeth-could-harm-them-see-dentist


text: African countries Cameroon, South Africa, Kenya and Malawi added to US visa waiver programme
claimant: News AP
claim_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
title: No, four African countries not added to US visa waiver programme
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-four-african-countries-not-added-us-visa-waiver-programme


text: Fuel subsidy for South Africa’s ‘previously disadvantaged’
claim_date: 2018-06-11T00:00:00Z
title: No fuel subsidy for South Africa’s ‘previously disadvantaged’
review_date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-fuel-subsidy-south-africas-previously-disadvantaged


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T11:09:49Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Since the start of the current parliament, our public employment programmes have created more than 3.2 million work opportunities.


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2018-05-02T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyattas-2018-state-nation-address-fact-checked
title: Uhuru Kenyatta's 2018 State of The Nation Address fact-checked
review_date: 2018-09-20T07:16:02Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
From an allocation of KSh210 billion in the FY 2013/2014, we now stand at KSh327 billion for the FY 2017/2018, an increase of 56% in five years.


text: “In other words, over 50% of Nigerians have survived the virus …”
claimant: Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-05-12T12:25:19Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-more-half-nigerians-have-covid-19-antibodies-newspaper-claimed-study-didnt

title:
Do more than half of Nigerians have Covid-19 antibodies, as newspaper claimed? Study didn’t quite say that


claimant: Prof. Dayo Oyekole
claim_date: 2013-09-28T12:00:00Z
title: Newspaper’s claim of a herbal treatment for fibroids is unfounded and unethical
review_date: 2017-09-06T10:26:21Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Actually, with the use of safe and potent herbal remedies, through the oral route, it has been confirmed that the fibroid tissues dissolve gradually.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/newspapers-claim-herbal-treatment-fibroids-unfounded-and-unethical


text: One in five youth aged nine to 17 has a diagnosable mental health disorder.
claimant: Independent Online (IOL)
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Adolescent mental health in South Africa: what do the numbers say?
review_date: 2022-08-01T06:53:04Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/adolescent-mental-health-south-africa-what-do-numbers-say


text: Cadbury chocolate infected with blood from HIV positive man
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
title: HOAX-ALERT: Nigerian bomber didn’t infect Cadbury’s chocolate with HIV!
review_date: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/hoax-alert-nigerian-bomber-didnt-infect-cadburys-chocolate-hiv


claimant: EFF Supporter website
claim_date: 2014-08-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nope-nkandlas-mermaids-are-actually-hollywood
title: Nope, Nkandla's 'mermaids' are actually from Hollywood
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:05:28Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Two live mermaids were allegedly discovered in a pool near South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma’s home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:48Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Annual diaspora remittances grew by close to 300% from KSh112.3 billion in 2013 to the current KSh436.8 billion in 2022.”


claimant: Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2022-06-06T12:00:00Z
title: #KenyaDecides2022: Fact-checking Raila Odinga’s manifesto ahead of presidential election
review_date: 2022-08-08T11:53:38Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“According to the World Bank, the [blue economy] already supports an estimated two million people directly and indirectly.”


claimant: South African parliamentary spokesperson Moloto Mothapo
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, South African MPs are generally not paid less than their international counterparts
review_date: 2022-08-15T12:56:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African public representatives do not earn higher salaries than those of countries with similar gross domestic products and populations.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-south-african-mps-are-generally-not-paid-less-their-international


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
title: False Harriet Tubman quote an insult to people in slavery - and to Tubman
review_date: 2019-01-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Harriet Tubman said ‘I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves’

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/false-harriet-tubman-quote-insult-people-slavery-and-tubman


text: [Nigeria] has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world.
claimant: Malala Yousafzai
claim_date: 2017-07-18T12:00:00Z
title: Does Nigeria have the world's most girls out-of-school, as activist Malala claimed?
review_date: 2017-08-10T08:02:06Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-nigeria-have-worlds-most-girls-out-school-activist-malala-claimed


text: Criminals using coloured stickers to mark properties from which dogs can be stolen
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2019-01-13T00:00:00Z
title: Still ‘no indication’ that dog thieves in South Africa mark properties with coloured stickers
review_date: 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/still-no-indication-dog-thieves-south-africa-mark-properties


claimant: Yoweri Museveni
claim_date: 2018-12-31T12:00:00Z
title: Was President Museveni right about Uganda’s development?
review_date: 2019-01-31T08:47:36Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In the last 32 years the economy has always been growing at the rates of 6.3% and above per annum except for the years 1986/1987, 2012/ 2013

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-president-museveni-get-his-facts-right-about-ugandas-development


claimant: Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, spokesperson for the Economic Freedom Fighters
claim_date: 2020-06-30T12:00:00Z
title: No, WHO hasn’t ‘unequivocally’ said South Africa is not ready to lift Covid-19 lockdown
review_date: 2020-08-05T08:50:24Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The World Health Organization “unequivocally” declared that South Africa was not ready to lift the national Covid-19 lockdown.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-who-hasnt-unequivocally-said-south-africa-not-ready-lift-covid-19-lockdown


text: “There has been a loss of one year of learning.”
claimant: Angie Motshekga, South Africa’s basic education minister
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: How much schooling time did South Africa’s kids lose to Covid? Probably a year
review_date: 2022-07-14T12:02:05Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/how-much-schooling-time-did-south-africas-kids-lose-covid-probably-year


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-08T06:33:40Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The World Bank's annual Doing Business Report currently puts South Africa number 82 out of 190 countries that they have tracked with regard to being able to do business in an efficient way.


text: Kenyatta’s administration has borrowed KSh8 trillion in eight years
claimant: Mike Sonko
claim_date: 2021-01-18T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-01-26T08:55:12Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/ousted-nairobi-governor-wrong-say-kenya-president-has-borrowed-over-ksh8

title:
Ousted Nairobi governor wrong to say Kenya president has borrowed ‘over KSh8 trillion in eight years’


claimant: South African Government
claim_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/momo-challenge-carries-all-hallmarks-hoax
title: Momo Challenge ‘carries all the hallmarks’ of a hoax
review_date: 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Momo Challenge is a form of cyberbullying targeting young children. It encourages self-harm and may even lead to suicide.


claimant: Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/covid-19-and-economy-kenya-presidents-maths-doesnt-add
title: Covid-19 and the economy: Kenya president’s maths doesn’t add up
review_date: 2020-10-01T11:52:40Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
… we have a chance to reach the 5% positivity rate recommended by the World Health Organization for a total reopening of our economy and country.


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T11:30:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Agriculture has made the largest contribution… to the improved growth of our economy in the second and third quarters of 2017.


text: Microwaves from cell phones pop popcorn
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, microwaves from cell phones can’t pop popcorn
review_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-microwaves-cell-phones-cant-pop-popcorn


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T10:46:41Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative programme continues to deliver modern facilities to our schools… with at least 187 schools being completed to date.


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2017-05-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Kenya’s DP William Ruto on maize imports and more
review_date: 2017-05-22T09:20:17Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The duty waiver was made in April… and we actually asked importers to import maize from as early as 1 month ago"

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-kenyas-deputy-president-maize-imports-debt-electricity-police


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Six claims by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 national day speech
review_date: 2021-11-24T13:13:20Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Kenyatta administration “has already issued 5.3 million title deeds under this manual registry in only 8 years”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-six-claims-kenyan-president-uhuru-kenyatta-2021-national-day


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:46Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Overall, the economy is estimated to have expanded by 7.6% in 2021, a much stronger level from the contraction of 0.3% in 2020.”


claimant: Aden Duale
claim_date: 2018-09-04T12:00:00Z
title: Tax revenue & development spend: does Kenya’s majority leader get his numbers right?
review_date: 2018-09-14T06:48:13Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In 2002, when the National Rainbow Coalition took over power, Kenya Revenue Authority was collecting close to about KSh600 billion.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/tax-revenue-development-spend-does-kenyas-majority-leader-get-his-numbers-right


text: Close to 80% of poor households are in the north.
claimant: The World Bank
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: World Bank uses outdated stats as it announces $500m Nigeria education plan
review_date: 2020-09-30T11:42:32Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/world-bank-uses-outdated-stats-it-announces-500m-nigeria-education-plan


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-09T06:29:05Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Eskom has established a separate transmission subsidiary and is on track to completing its own unbundling by December 2022.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/2022-sona-promises-south-africas-cyril-ramaphosa-zero-two-state-utilities-eskom

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


claimant: Josphat Nanok
claim_date: 2018-06-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/hit-or-miss-5-claims-kenyan-governors-fact-checked
title: Hit or miss? 5 claims by Kenyan governors fact-checked
review_date: 2018-07-09T06:42:12Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Our health worker proportion is therefore still below the ideal minimum health worker to population ratio of 23 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 population recommended by WHO


claimant: Nnedinso Ogaziechi, spokesperson for the Nkata Ndi Inyom Igbo
claim_date: 2021-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: Frozen out? Checking claims about women’s participation in Nigerian politics
review_date: 2021-10-04T05:46:26Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘Nigeria, with a population of more than 200 million, has one of the lowest gender representations in parliament, with a paltry 6.9%.’


text: Photo of multi-million Kenyan Kiambu Urban Water Supply Project
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of multi-million Kenyan water project looks nothing like satellite images
review_date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/photo-multi-million-kenyan-water-project-looks-nothing-satellite-images


text: Sleeping morgue employee ‘cremated by mistake’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, sleeping morgue employee not ‘cremated by mistake’
review_date: 2019-03-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-sleeping-morgue-employee-not-cremated-mistake


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-02-09T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-10T12:33:14Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Eskom has launched a programme to buy excess power from private generators and has already secured 300 MW from our neighbouring countries.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/time-crisis-fact-checking-south-african-president-cyril-ramaphosas-2023-state

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


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Six claims by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 national day speech
review_date: 2021-11-24T13:13:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“While the global economy contracted by an average of 3.6% last year, we still managed to grow our economy by 0.3% over the same period”.


claimant: Josphat Nanok
claim_date: 2018-06-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/hit-or-miss-5-claims-kenyan-governors-fact-checked
title: Hit or miss? 5 claims by Kenyan governors fact-checked
review_date: 2018-07-09T06:37:06Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
As a matter of clarity, we counties have been able [to] improve on our local revenues to augment the intergovernmental transfers from the national shareable revenues.


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-02-08T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s Ruto at Chatham House: verifying the deputy president’s London speech
review_date: 2019-02-25T09:02:20Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We have constructed 7,000 kilometres of tarmac in the last five years – 12,000 kilometres were constructed in 50 years.


text: Pakistani man sentenced to death for farting in mosque during Ramadan
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/pakistani-man-sentenced-death-farting-mosque-during-ramadan

title:
Pakistani man sentenced to death for farting in mosque during Ramadan? No, fictional story is satire


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-17T00:00:00Z
title: Scam alert! Malnourished refugee child photos from 2011 used in fake Facebook appeal
review_date: 2019-04-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Child called Michael has stomach cancer and mother looking for money to fund his surgery in appeal shared on Facebook

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/scam-alert-malnourished-refugee-child-photos-2011-used-fake


claimant: Fikile Mbalula
claim_date: 2017-05-21T12:00:00Z
title: Can you trace a missing person using their phone's IMEI number… even when it’s off?
review_date: 2017-06-08T12:10:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Give ur IMEI NUMBER to family and friends so that when u disappear without an explanation and ur phone is off or rings unanswered, they can make the case easy for the police by providing them with this number which can then be used to track ur movements

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/can-you-trace-missing-person-using-their-phones-imei-number-even-when-its


text: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in South Africa after HIV/Aids.
claimant: The South African Heart Association
claim_date: 2020-09-29T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, cardiovascular disease is second leading cause of death in South Africa
review_date: 2020-10-14T07:59:11Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-cardiovascular-disease-second-leading-cause-death-south-africa


text: Fuel-saving advice by South Africa’s deputy minister of transport
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-10-11T00:00:00Z
title: Fuel-saving advice by South Africa’s deputy minister of transport is fake
review_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/fuel-saving-advice-south-africas-deputy-minister-transport-fake


text: Of over 100,000 cases that are reported in Nigeria, about 72,000 die annually of cancer.
claimant: Yemi Osinbajo
claim_date: 2020-01-15T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria’s ‘major’ cancer problem: did vice president Osinbajo get his facts straight?
review_date: 2020-01-29T06:58:19Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-major-cancer-problem-did-vice-president-osinbajo-get-his-facts


claimant: William Ruto, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-22T05:47:33Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Even the president of [the United States] of America, Joe Biden, has confirmed that the trickle-down economic model has failed.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/ruto-campaign-trail-grading-some-kenyan-deputy-president-claims-about-his

title:
Ruto on the campaign trail: Grading some of Kenyan deputy president claims about his record in office


text: In Kenya, 49% of new HIV infections occur among adolescents
claimant: Johnson & Johnson
claim_date: 2019-06-05T12:00:00Z
title: No, adolescents don’t account for half of new HIV infections in Kenya
review_date: 2019-08-29T07:18:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-adolescents-dont-account-half-new-hiv-infections-kenya


text: Our doctor-to-patient ratio remains 1 doctor to every 16,000 patients
claimant: Nzioka Waita
claim_date: 2018-04-22T12:00:00Z
title: As help from Cuba arrives, is there only one Kenyan doctor for every 16,000 people?
review_date: 2018-06-26T10:49:12Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/help-cuba-arrives-there-only-one-kenyan-doctor-every-16000-people


text: New Fan Milk ice cream called “FanYogo Gin & Ginger” contains 12.5% alcohol
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: Social media photo of alcoholic ‘gin and ginger’ ice cream in Nigeria is a hoax
review_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/social-media-photo-alcoholic-gin-and-ginger-ice-cream


claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T07:23:55Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“If you live in DA-run Cape Town, you already experience fewer blackouts. The Steenbras Hydro-electrical Power Scheme has reduced load shedding times compared to municipalities not run by the DA.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/promise-more-fact-checking-claims-made-democratic-alliances-2021-election

title:
‘A promise of more’ – Fact-checking claims made in the Democratic Alliance’s 2021 election manifesto


text: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari ‘launching terror flag’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
title: No, Nigerian president receiving captured flag from army chief – not ‘launching terror flag’
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-nigerian-president-receiving-captured-flag-army-chief-not


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:52Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The earnings from the tourism sector had increased by 74% from KSh94 billion in 2013 to KSh163.6 billion in 2019.”


claimant: Nigeria candidates
claim_date: 2022-07-16T12:00:00Z
title: #OsunDecides2022: Did debating governor hopefuls in Nigerian state get their facts right?
review_date: 2022-07-12T12:03:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“This government has five licences. Instead of partnering with internationally recognised mining companies, they chose to partner with the Chinese.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/osundecides2022-did-debating-governor-hopefuls-nigerian-state-get-their-facts


claimant: Homeless Solutions, quoted by Independent Online
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: 600,000 homeless people on the streets of Johannesburg and Pretoria? Why this claim is flawed
review_date: 2023-02-22T06:49:02Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
There are 600,000 confirmed homeless people living on the streets of Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/600000-homeless-people-streets-johannesburg-and-pretoria-why-claim-flawed


text: Gay baboon rapes men in African village
claimant: Zimbabwe News
claim_date: 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Gay baboon rapes men in African village’ story just money-making ‘hogwash’
review_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/gay-baboon-rapes-men-african-village-story-just-money-making


text: You can cure cancer by making the body less acidic, using a herbal supplement.
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Dangerous quackery: why you can’t cure cancer by ‘detoxifying’ the body or balancing pH levels
review_date: 2023-06-15T07:21:50Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/dangerous-quackery-why-you-cant-cure-cancer-detoxifying-body-or-balancing-ph


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2021-02-11T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/chickens-and-economy-fact-checking-ramaphosas-sona2021
title: Fact-checking Ramaphosa's #SONA2021
review_date: 2021-02-17T07:26:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
There were 1.7 million fewer people employed in the third quarter of 2020 than there were in the first quarter. Our unemployment rate stands at a staggering 30.8%


text: The world’s first human head transplant has been successfully achieved
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
title: No ‘successful’ human head transplant – yet
review_date: 2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-successful-human-head-transplant-yet


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T11:13:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Today we have nearly one million children who are participating in early childhood development facilities.


claimant: Rigathi Gachagua, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-27T04:40:00Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“[Officials in the Kenyatta administration] cut off funds to the office of the deputy president … The previous year the budget of the office of the deputy president was KSh4 billion, they went ahead and cut KSh1.5 billion.”


claimant: Ahmednasir Abdullahi
claim_date: 2019-04-06T12:00:00Z
title: Top Kenyan lawyer gets parliament and judiciary funding numbers wrong
review_date: 2019-04-01T13:55:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The entire Kenyan judiciary with 10,000 employees covering 47 counties has a budget of KSh18 billion.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/top-kenyan-lawyer-gets-parliament-and-judiciary-funding-numbers-wrong


text: Only 54% transit to junior secondary schools
claimant: Donald Duke
claim_date: 2018-07-19T12:00:00Z
title: Crisis in Nigerian schooling? Grading three claims by presidential hopeful
review_date: 2018-07-31T08:17:11Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/crisis-nigerian-schooling-grading-three-claims-presidential-hopeful


text: Malawian man turns his xenophobic attackers into snakes
claimant: Zambian Observer
claim_date: 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photo-video-zimbabwe-used-fake-story-south-african

title:
Photo, video from Zimbabwe used in fake story of South African xenophobic attackers ‘turned into snakes’


claimant: Kenyan presidential hopeful Raila Odinga
claim_date: 2022-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Battle of Chatham’? Checking four claims by Kenyan presidential hopeful Odinga at London thinktank
review_date: 2022-04-12T08:25:15Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In Kenya, we stand to lose about KSh10 billion worth of exports to Russia as a result of sanctions.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/battle-chatham-fact-checking-4-claims-kenyan-presidential-hopeful-raila-odinga


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:19:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Since 2013, County Governments have cumulatively received KSh1.57 trillion worth of equitable share of allocation.


text: Trees in Finland can take 120 years to mature
claimant: President Yoweri Museveni
claim_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-03-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/ugandas-museveni-right-trees-finland-can-take-120-years-mature-these-are-not

title:
Uganda’s Museveni is right - trees in Finland can take 120 years to mature, but these are not for paper


text: Water bottles injected with poison
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-17T00:00:00Z
title: American ‘poisoned water bottles’ hoax hits South Africa
review_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/american-poisoned-water-bottles-hoax-hits-south-africa


text: Vodacom employs over 5,000 Zimbabweans
claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2022-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-10-10T08:07:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/thousands-migrants-have-jobs-eskom-vodacom-and-south-africas-government-no

title:
Thousands of migrants have jobs in Eskom, Vodacom and South Africa’s government? No, viral message plain wrong


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-18T12:28:37Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have made significant progress in reducing the DNA backlog processing from 210,000 exhibits to some 58,000 at present.”


text: Picture of Nigeria’s Abubakar with US President Donald Trump
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z
title: Picture of Nigeria’s Abubakar with Trump was photoshopped
review_date: 2018-10-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/picture-nigerias-abubakar-trump-was-photoshopped


claimant: Nigeria’s Guardian newspaper
claim_date: 2022-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-05-12T12:25:19Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
A Nigeria Centre for Disease Control study shows that over 50% of Nigerians have been exposed to the virus, and have antibodies for Covid-19.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-more-half-nigerians-have-covid-19-antibodies-newspaper-claimed-study-didnt

title:
Do more than half of Nigerians have Covid-19 antibodies, as newspaper claimed? Study didn’t quite say that


claimant: Dipuo Peters
claim_date: 2016-12-20T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/male-chauvinism-blame-nearly-80-road-deaths-sa
title: Is male chauvinism to blame for nearly 80% of road deaths in SA?
review_date: 2017-07-27T12:54:05Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"We have to do everything in our might to deal with the male stubborn and chauvinistic attitude as they account for 78.4% of fatalities"


claimant: Business Day newspaper editorial
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's education system 'dire'? Grading claims in Business Day editorial
review_date: 2022-04-06T10:41:46Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Less than 10% of the funds allocated to education in the period, representing N3.5 trillion, had been given to the sector.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-education-system-dire-grading-claims-business-day-editorial


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2010-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme is currently being implemented in 35 states of the federation and the FCT.”


claimant: Rand Water and the Department of Water and Sanitation
claim_date: 2022-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Almost double the world average’? Debunking government claims about water use in South Africa
review_date: 2023-01-25T08:26:09Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Water consumption in Gauteng per person per day is over 300 litres against a world average of 173 litres per person per day.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/almost-double-world-average-debunking-government-claims-about-water-use-south


text: The standard for tax expenditures is about 2% of gross domestic product.
claimant: Ukur Yatani, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the treasury
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Tax incentives cost Kenya 6% of GDP, but there’s no global ‘standard’
review_date: 2020-07-20T07:08:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/tax-incentives-cost-kenya-6-gdp-theres-no-global-standard


claimant: Jubilee party
claim_date: 2017-06-26T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/jubilee-party-manifesto-5-claims-fact-checked
title: The Jubilee Party manifesto: 5 claims fact-checked
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:32:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The ratio of police officer to Kenyan citizen has improved from 1:500 to 1:400 a higher threshold than the UN benchmark of one officer for every 450 citizens.”


text: Almost one in 10 teenage deaths in South Africa every year are the result of suicide.
claimant: Psychiatry Management Group
claim_date: 2018-10-10T12:00:00Z
title: Teen suicide in South Africa: getting the facts right helps combat the problem
review_date: 2018-10-23T11:19:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/teen-suicide-south-africa-getting-facts-right-helps-combat-problem


text: 34,000 hospital beds in South Africa are being taken up by alcohol-related cases.
claimant: Bheki Cele
claim_date: 2020-06-11T12:00:00Z
title: Alcohol burdens hospitals, but no evidence for South African police minister’s 'baffling' numbers
review_date: 2020-07-02T05:39:42Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/alcohol-burdens-hospitals-no-evidence-south-african-police-ministers-baffling


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-kenya-presidents-2020-state-nation-address
title: Kenyan president’s 2020 state of the nation address
review_date: 2020-11-17T07:12:47Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“As at the end of 2019 calendar year, we had been able to achieve a textbook-to-pupil ratio of 1:1 for grades 1 through to 3.”


text: A Facebook video of dissenting Kenyan electoral commissioners being thrown out of supreme court
claimant: Facebook
claim_date: 2022-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-09-08T10:06:11Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-video-doesnt-show-dissenting-kenyan-electoral

title:
No, video doesn’t show dissenting Kenyan electoral commissioners’ lawyers being thrown out of supreme court’s presidential results hearing


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: No proof women pictured in Facebook post arrested for dumping baby in drain
review_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Mother and grandmother have been arrested for dumping a baby in a drain in the South African city of Durban

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-proof-women-pictured-facebook-post-arrested-dumping-baby


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying claims by Kenya’s president on electrification and title deeds
review_date: 2020-06-30T12:06:37Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘After 78 years of colonial rule and 50 years of the independence administrations, a total of 4.5 million households were connected to electricity.’

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-claims-kenyas-president-electrification-and-title-deeds


claimant: Exclusive103.com
claim_date: 2019-03-23T00:00:00Z
title: False headline claims Okorocha pledged to help Atiku win at Nigerian election tribunal
review_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha has pledged to help Atiku Abubakar win at the tribunal. Okorocha was an APC senatorial candidate in the election

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/false-headline-claims-okorocha-pledged-help-atiku-win


text: Bill Murray said "The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream"
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-24T00:00:00Z
title: No, Bill Murray didn’t say eating 30% of kids’ ice cream would teach them about tax
review_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-bill-murray-didnt-say-eating-30-kids-ice-cream-would


claimant: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Is poverty on the decline in South Africa? We fact-checked Cyril Ramaphosa's ANC claims
review_date: 2023-08-24T03:00:24Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The headcount poverty according to the multidimensional poverty by geographic various levels has really gone down, and it has decreased from 17.9% to 7%.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/poverty-decline-south-africa-we-fact-checked-cyril-ramaphosas-anc-claims


text: Revenue has been under-performing for the last 10 years.
claimant: Ukur Yatani, Kenya’s finance minister
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, finance minister correct Kenya missed revenue targets over past 10 years
review_date: 2020-05-28T11:11:33Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-finance-minister-correct-kenya-missed-revenue-targets-over-past-10-years


claimant: Nigeria’s the Guardian newspaper
claim_date: 2021-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: National newspaper wrong on cardiovascular disease deaths in Nigeria
review_date: 2021-11-15T07:51:46Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Cardiovascular disease is responsible for 11% of over two million noncommunicable disease deaths in Nigeria yearly.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/national-newspaper-wrong-cardiovascular-disease-deaths-nigeria


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta and Andrew Wakahiu
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-28T06:38:25Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“This is what we are transferring to Mount Kenya region every year now – KSh81 billion every year to our 10 counties.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/president-kenyatta-did-send-billions-mt-kenya-counties-misled-how-much-kenyas

title:
President Kenyatta did send billions to Mt Kenya counties, but misled on how much Kenya’s economy has grown under his watch


claimant: The Onion
claim_date: 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
title: CIA apologised to Osama bin Laden’s family? No, the story is satire
review_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
CIA issues posthumous apology after new evidence clears Osama bin Laden of involvement in 9/11 attacks.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/cia-apologised-osama-bin-ladens-family-no-story-satire


text: Japanese method of drinking water on an empty stomach will prevent a heart attack.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z
title: No, drinking water on empty stomach not ‘100% cure’ for any disease
review_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-drinking-water-empty-stomach-not-100-cure-any-disease


text: Buhari ‘mistakenly’ votes for rival PDP in Nigeria’s elections
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2019-02-23T00:00:00Z
title: Fake photo of Buhari ‘mistakenly’ voting for rival PDP in Nigeria’s elections
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/fake-photo-buhari-mistakenly-voting-rival-pdp-nigerias


claimant: The Star newspaper, Kenya
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-09-28T10:07:30Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
One in 10 girls has been subjected to female genital mutilation since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/have-one-10-kenyan-girls-been-cut-start-covid-pandemic-claims-about-female

title:
Have one in 10 Kenyan girls been cut since the start of the Covid pandemic? Claims about female genital mutilation in Kenya, checked


text: Photo of 256-year-old woman who lives in Japan
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-09-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, this isn’t a photo of the 256-year-old ‘oldest person on earth’
review_date: 2019-05-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-isnt-photo-256-year-old-oldest-person-earth


text: “Why is it necessary to search for the virus DEEP in the nose?”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-05-25T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-05-25T12:46:47Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/viruses-infect-us-more-efficiently-we-can-test-them-why

title:
Viruses infect us more efficiently than we can test for them – why ‘Columbo’ Covid-questioning graphic is misleading


text: Access to healthcare has increased from a headcount of “68 million in 1998 to 120 million in 2020”.
claimant: ANC
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-21T08:44:48Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/building-better-communities-together-fact-checking-african-national-congress

title:
‘Building better communities together’ – Fact-checking the African National Congress election manifesto


text: In the first quarter of 2018, Nigeria earned N577 billion from exports of agricultural produce.
claimant: Festus Keyamo
claim_date: 2018-10-15T12:00:00Z
title: No ‘record’ Nigeria agricultural exports
review_date: 2018-11-01T06:19:19Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/buhari-campaign-gets-its-numbers-wrong-about-record-nigeria-agricultural


claimant: Nigeria Justice minister Abubakar Malam
claim_date: 2021-12-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-12-10T08:30:45Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“As far as African countries are concerned, it is only Nigeria that has been taken off the impunity index.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-absence-global-impunity-index-evidence-better-press-freedom-and-human

title:
Is Nigeria’s absence from global impunity index evidence of better press freedom and human rights, as justice minister claimed?


text: Thuli Madonsela said she was ‘tired of black people in ANC blaming apartheid’
claimant: News Soweto
claim_date: 2019-03-15T00:00:00Z
title: No, Thuli Madonsela didn’t say she was ‘tired of black people in ANC blaming apartheid’
review_date: 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-thuli-madonsela-didnt-say-she-was-tired-black-people-anc-blaming


claimant: South African Police Service
claim_date: 2021-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, South Africa doesn’t have world’s 2nd-highest rate of firearm-related deaths
review_date: 2022-05-12T07:13:15Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In an international study in 2015 South Africa was found to have the second highest rate of firearm-related deaths in the world.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-south-africa-doesnt-have-worlds-2nd-highest-rate-firearm-related-deaths


text: Basic fact about the execution of George Stinney Jr, a 14-year-old black child in the US in 1944
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-10-04T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, basic facts on George Stinney Jr, 14-year-old black child executed in US in 1944, are correct
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-basic-facts-george-stinney-jr-14-year-old-black-child


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T11:23:42Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Government’s free basic services programme currently supports more than 3.5 million indigent households.


claimant: Children’s Health Defense
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Don’t fall for unfounded scare claims about measles vaccination in South Africa
review_date: 2023-06-12T10:12:42Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
As a result of measles vaccination, “children are now suffering” from “adverse effects, some serious”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/dont-fall-unfounded-scare-claims-about-measles-vaccination-south-africa


text: 60% of South African consumers were living debt-free in 2021
claimant: Africa Facts Zone
claim_date: 2022-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: 60% of South African consumers debt free? Popular Twitter account mangles study findings
review_date: 2022-11-01T08:26:04Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/60-south-african-consumers-debt-free-popular-twitter-account-mangles-study


claimant: Children’s Health Defense
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Don’t fall for unfounded scare claims about measles vaccination in South Africa
review_date: 2023-06-12T10:12:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The measles vaccines being given to children “could” be “traditional measles shots, mRNA based measles shots, or C-19 shots”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/dont-fall-unfounded-scare-claims-about-measles-vaccination-south-africa


claimant: Jimmy Wanjigi
claim_date: 2021-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T12:23:15Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“When Kibaki left power, of every KSh100 of Kenyan revenue collections, KSh18 went to [repaying] debt.”


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:39:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The colonisers left us with a gross domestic product, which is a measure of our national cake, of close to KSh6.4 billion in 1963 using the exchange rate of the time.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyatta-fact-checking-kenyan-presidents-claims-about-his-legacy


text: Chinese people opening their own police stations in South Africa
claimant: Zambian Observer
claim_date: 2018-11-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, Chinese people aren’t opening their own police stations in South Africa
review_date: 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-chinese-people-arent-opening-their-own-police-stations-south-africa


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-16T07:19:49Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The social relief of distress grant has provided support to more than 10 million unemployed people…”


text: Council has declared Biafra the “most brilliant region in Nigeria”
claimant: Daily Advent
claim_date: 2019-03-08T00:00:00Z
title: Exams council hasn’t declared any region of Nigeria as ‘most brilliant’
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/exams-council-hasnt-declared-any-region-nigeria-most-brilliant


text: Man with no heart needs surgery
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-12T00:00:00Z
title: Man with no heart needs surgery? No, photos of US actor Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/man-no-heart-needs-surgery-no-photos-us-actor-robert-downey


text: Dubai’s ruler tweeted threat against Kenyan politicians over gold scam
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-19T00:00:00Z
title: No, Dubai’s ruler didn’t tweet threat against Kenyan politicians over gold scam
review_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-dubais-ruler-didnt-tweet-threat-against-kenyan


text: Orlando Pirates fired player after arrest for rape of 12-year-old
claimant: Trends Daily
claim_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
title: No, Orlando Pirates hasn’t fired player after arrest for rape of 12-year-old
review_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-orlando-pirates-hasnt-fired-player-after-arrest-rape-12


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-12T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, urine is used in African girls’ electricity generator - but it’s more complicated than that
review_date: 2019-01-21T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Mixture
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for 6 hours, using a single liter of urine as fuel.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-urine-used-african-girls-electricity-generator-its-more


claimant: Kaduna state governor
claim_date: 2017-08-12T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-africa-only-have-3-facilities-repair-aircraft
title: Does Africa only have 3 facilities to repair aircraft?
review_date: 2017-09-14T06:36:52Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
[It is] important to note that in the whole of Africa, there are only 3 maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities.


text: Elephants think humans are 'cute' the same way we see puppies
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-20T00:00:00Z
title: Elephants don’t think people are ‘cute’
review_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-elephants-dont-think-people-are-cute-wild-they-see-us-threat


text: Nairobi makes KSh10 billion from Murang’a county water every year.
claimant: Mwangi wa Iria
claim_date: 2018-10-04T12:00:00Z
title: No, Kenya’s capital Nairobi doesn’t rake in KSh10bn a year from Murang’a water
review_date: 2018-12-10T11:19:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-kenyas-capital-nairobi-doesnt-rake-ksh10bn-year-muranga-water


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“KMC outlets are collecting KSh1 million daily … This KSh1 million translates to KSh30 million every month, and KSh3.6 bBillion annually in just one outlet.”.


text: Nigeria is the fifth largest receiver of diaspora remittances in the world
claimant: Prompt website
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: How many Nigerians abroad? And how much cash do they send home?
review_date: 2021-02-09T09:25:16Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/how-many-nigerians-abroad-and-how-much-cash-do-they-send-home


text: “Our opponents spent 16 years in power and they couldn’t even make a down-payment for rail-track.”
claimant: Bola Tinubu, All Progressives Congress candidate for the Nigerian presidency
claim_date: 2022-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-11-02T09:40:25Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-ruling-party-not-solely-responsible-rail-development-its-presidential

title:
Nigeria’s ruling party not solely responsible for rail development, as its presidential candidate claims


claimant: Business Day newspaper editorial
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's education system 'dire'? Grading claims in Business Day editorial
review_date: 2022-04-06T10:41:46Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In Nigeria’s 2022 budget of N17.13 trillion, only a paltry 7.2% is allocated to the education sector.”


text: Dangerous rat with body of a snake
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-11-30T00:00:00Z
title: Dangerous rat with body of a snake? No, image is photoshopped
review_date: 2019-04-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/dangerous-rat-body-snake-no-image-photoshopped


text: Former Nigerian president Obasanjo endorsed Buhari two days before elections
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: Did former Nigerian president Obasanjo endorse Buhari two days before elections?
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/did-former-nigerian-president-obasanjo-endorse-buhari-two


claimant: The APC’s Kashim Shettima and Festus Keyamo
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: #NigeriaDecides2023: Ruling APC party chiefs fall flat with TV claims about the economy
review_date: 2022-09-14T06:41:06Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The World Bank warned that several countries have debt crises. There were 25 African countries on the list, Nigeria was not there.”


text: Over 4,000 South African police officers are convicted criminals.
claimant: South African Police Service (SAPS)
claim_date: 2020-01-30T12:00:00Z
title: Are over 4,000 officers convicted criminals? South African police ‘still checking’
review_date: 2020-01-30T06:52:21Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-over-4000-officers-convicted-criminals-south-african-police-still-checking


claimant: Obiageli Ezekwesili
claim_date: 2018-11-28T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Project Rescue Nigeria’: Fact-checking Oby Ezekwesili’s presidential manifesto
review_date: 2019-01-16T12:42:17Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Singapore... got its independence five years after Nigeria [and] now has a real GDP per capita of $57,722, while Nigeria’s GDP per capita as at 2017 was $1,951.


text: Footballer Ekstein has resigned from South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs
claimant: Trends Daily
claim_date: 2019-02-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, footballer Ekstein hasn’t resigned from South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs for third time this month
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-footballer-ekstein-hasnt-resigned-south-africas-kaizer


text: Slices of onion on feet ‘cure diseases overnight’
claimant: Best Folk Medicine
claim_date: 2019-04-03T00:00:00Z
title: Slices of onion on feet ‘cure diseases overnight’? Old folk remedy is incorrect
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/slices-onion-feet-cure-diseases-overnight-old-folk-remedy


claimant: ANC party
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-21T08:44:47Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In 2019, more than 3 million households in our country benefited from free basic water services while more than 2 million households benefited from free basic electricity.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/building-better-communities-together-fact-checking-african-national-congress

title:
‘Building better communities together’ – Fact-checking the African National Congress election manifesto


text: Kenya deputy president William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance called for media boycott
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-04-13T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-04-13T15:10:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-kenya-deputy-president-william-rutos-united-democratic

title:
No, Kenya deputy president William Ruto’s United Democratic Alliance hasn’t called for media boycott – statement fake


text: Kenya Ports Authority looking to hire 140 graduates
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-04T00:00:00Z
title: Fake job ad: Kenya Ports Authority not looking to hire 140 graduates
review_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/fake-job-ad-kenya-ports-authority-not-looking-hire-140


text: Man faked being deaf and dumb for 62 years to avoid listening to his wife
claimant: World News Daily Report
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
title: Divorce after 62 years of fake deafness ‘to avoid listening to wife’? No, the story is satire
review_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/divorce-after-62-years-fake-deafness-avoid-listening-wife-no


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-17T08:57:25Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The presidential employment stimulus programme includes over half a million young people appointed as education assistants.”


text: German supreme court ruled that measles doesn’t exist
claimant: Natural Blaze
claim_date: 2017-01-17T00:00:00Z
title: No, German ‘supreme court’ didn’t rule that ‘measles doesn’t exist’
review_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-german-supreme-court-didnt-rule-measles-doesnt-exist


claimant: Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2020-04-08T12:00:00Z
title: Covid-19 pandemic: Fact-checking former Nigeria VP Abubakar’s claims about the economy
review_date: 2020-04-21T09:51:55Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria has devoted N37 billion to renovating the national assembly complex, which was built from the scratch for less than 20% of that amount.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/covid-19-pandemic-fact-checking-former-nigeria-vp-abubakars-claims-about


claimant: Nigeria-based NPO Health of Mother Earth Foundation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian NGO fails to support claims about country’s corn output and its alleged medical use
review_date: 2023-06-14T03:54:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Corn can also treat skin conditions and wounds by grinding the kernels into a paste to apply topically.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerian-ngo-fails-support-claims-about-countrys-corn-output-and-its-alleged


claimant: Punch newspaper
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking four claims about antenatal care and pregnancy-related deaths in Nigeria
review_date: 2022-09-07T07:39:10Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“According to the WHO, the lifetime risk of a Nigerian woman dying during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum or post-abortion is 1 in 22 …”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checking-four-claims-about-antenatal-care-and-pregnancy-related-deaths


claimant: Floyd Shivambu
claim_date: 2018-02-19T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying key claims in SA's 2018 State of the Nation address debate
review_date: 2018-03-22T08:47:13Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The debt that is guaranteed by the state in Eskom is R350 billion. In SANRAL, it’s R38.9 billion. In South African Airways, it’s R19.1 billion. In Denel, it’s R1.8 billion. In the Road Accident Fund, it’s R8.5 billion.


text: Irregular spending by South Africa’s DA-led Western Cape government up R21 million in 2018
claimant: The South African
claim_date: 2018-10-10T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, irregular spending by South Africa’s DA-led Western Cape government up R21 million in 2018
review_date: 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-irregular-spending-south-africas-da-led-western-cape


text: Crowd queuing at Nairobi hotel not applying for just five jobs
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-30T00:00:00Z
title: No, crowd queuing at Nairobi hotel not applying for just five jobs
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-crowd-queuing-nairobi-hotel-not-applying-just-five-jobs


text: "Kenya has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world."
claimant: Penny Appeal
claim_date: 2019-03-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking Kenya's maternal mortality rates
review_date: 2019-06-12T12:03:06Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-kenya-have-one-worst-maternal-mortality-rates-world


text: “... 83% or 15.3 million jobs are in the informal sector.”
claimant: William Ruto, president of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-30T07:38:20Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenya-60-fact-checking-six-claims-president-william-ruto-including-election

title:
Kenya at 60: Fact-checking six claims by president William Ruto, including on election results and jobs


claimant: United Nations Population Fund
claim_date: 2019-07-05T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: four claims about sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-10-01T08:46:27Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
For every 800 women that died globally on a daily basis as a result of pregnancy-related causes, 111 were from Nigeria.


text: Strange creature spotted in the Kenyan town of Embu
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Strange creature in Embu’ actually silicone sculpture by Italian artist
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/strange-creature-embu-actually-silicone-sculpture-italian


text: The DA wants to shut down the most historic mosque in Cape Town because the “athaan is too loud”.
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-05-11T00:00:00Z
title: DA has ‘no intention’ to shut down Muir Street mosque in Cape Town, South Africa
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/da-has-no-intention-shut-down-muir-street-mosque-cape-town


claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T07:23:54Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“For the 2019/20 financial year, 18 of the Western Cape’s 30 municipalities were awarded clean audits and they were all governed by the DA.”


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-02-08T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s Ruto at Chatham House: verifying the deputy president’s London speech
review_date: 2019-02-25T09:08:06Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The number of people on health insurance [has increased] from 3 million to 7 million in a record five years.


text: If you sit more than 11 hours a day, there’s a 50% chance you’ll die within the next 3 years.
claimant: Facebook page 'Medical Talk'
claim_date: 2019-08-30T12:00:00Z
title: No, sitting for over 11 hours a day doesn’t mean 50% chance you’ll die in three years
review_date: 2019-10-09T15:15:45Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-sitting-over-11-hours-day-doesnt-mean-50-chance-youll-die-three-years


claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
review_date: 2021-06-30T07:43:38Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa’s basic education system has “consistently been ranked as either the worst in the world or one of the worst in the world”.


claimant: Henry Rotich
claim_date: 2019-06-13T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya's 2019 budget speech: do finance minister’s numbers add up?
review_date: 2019-06-17T08:31:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“This growth is well above the sub-Saharan Africa region average growth of 3% and the global average of 3.6%.”


claimant: Kingsley Moghalu
claim_date: 2019-01-19T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria #Debate2019: Did presidential candidates get their facts straight?
review_date: 2019-01-23T15:35:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We have 175 policemen to 100,000 citizens in Nigeria. UN recommendation is 300 police to 100,000 citizens; some will argue 400 police to 100,000 citizens


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-12-18T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, deadly explosion at gas station killed woman in Nigeria’s Osun state
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Checked
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
One of the directors of State of Osun Ambulance died in Osogbo, Nigeria while using her phone and filling her gas cylinder.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-deadly-explosion-gas-station-killed-woman-nigerias-osun


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:46Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Our economic diversification strategy remains on course with the persistent increase in non-oil sector contribution to GDP.”


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:40:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Today, and in only six years, we have 54 renal units with 360 state-of-the-art dialysis machines distributed among 47 counties.”


text: Mpumalanga is the world’s largest air pollution hotspot.
claimant: Greenpeace
claim_date: 2018-10-29T12:00:00Z
title: Is South Africa’s Mpumalanga province the ‘world’s largest air pollution hotspot’?
review_date: 2018-11-30T11:37:31Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-mpumalanga-province-worlds-largest-air-pollution-hotspot


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2018-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Pres Cyril Ramaphosa's first-ever State of the Nation Address
review_date: 2018-03-13T10:20:12Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
There are currently almost one million students who are enrolled in higher education, up from 500,000 in 1994


text: At least 15 Nigerian men die daily from prostate cancer
claimant: Project Pink Blue
claim_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
title: New data supports claim that 15 men die every day from prostate cancer in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/new-data-supports-claim-15-men-die-every-day-prostate-cancer-nigeria


text: Image of Nigerian senator Remi Tinubu fighting
claimant: Scannews
claim_date: 2019-07-10T00:00:00Z
title: Nigerian senator Tinubu fighting? No, five-year-old photo from house of representatives
review_date: 2019-07-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/nigerian-senator-tinubu-fighting-no-five-year-old-photo


claimant: The Biafra Star
claim_date: 2019-06-12T00:00:00Z
title: Obasanjo did not say there will be a second war in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested Nigeria is set to slide into a second civil war.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/obasanjo-did-not-say-there-will-be-second-war-nigeria


claimant: The British Broadcasting Corporation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-08T04:12:18Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Last week, with the end in sight, Mr Buhari pleaded with lawmakers to hurriedly approve an $800m (£640m) loan from the World Bank.”


text: China supplying Africa with corned beef made from dead people
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-05-09T00:00:00Z
title: China supplying Africa with corned beef made from dead people? No, it's a hoax
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/china-supplying-africa-corned-beef-made-dead-people-no-its


claimant: Alvin Botes
claim_date: 2018-05-09T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-sa-invest-three-times-more-education-kenya
title: Does SA invest three times more in education than Kenya?
review_date: 2018-06-11T07:46:59Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
It is a fact, honourable chairperson, that in South Africa we spend on average three times more on education than a country like Kenya.


text: Wolves can teach us about leadership
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
title: No, wolves can’t teach people a ‘leadership lesson’
review_date: 2019-02-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-wolves-cant-teach-people-leadership-lesson


claimant: Martha Karua, Rigathi Gachagua, Justina Wamae, Ruth Mutua
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Battle of the deputies: Fact-checking claims from Kenya’s presidential running mate debates
review_date: 2022-07-26T08:46:29Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Last financial year the Kenya Revenue Authority reported that the PAYE (Pay As You Earn) was KSh461 billion”.


text: ‘11% of maternal deaths in Nigeria due to unsafe abortions’
claimant: Dr Habeeb Salami, Pathfinder International’s global advocacy director
claim_date: 2021-09-01T12:00:00Z
title: HEALTH CHECK: Unsafe abortion and maternal mortality in Nigeria
review_date: 2021-09-27T12:58:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/health-check-unsafe-abortion-and-maternal-mortality-nigeria


claimant: Norwegian Refugee Council
claim_date: 2017-01-25T12:00:00Z
title: Did Uganda receive more refugees daily in 2016 than many European nations did the whole year?
review_date: 2017-04-24T06:26:16Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The reality is that more refugees sought safety in Uganda per day at the end of 2016 than many wealthy European countries received the entire year.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-uganda-receive-more-refugees-daily-2016-many-european-nations-did-whole


text: White man arrested for feeding hawkers to pet python in Zambia
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-10-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, white man not arrested for feeding hawkers to pet python in Zambia
review_date: 2019-06-26T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-white-man-not-arrested-feeding-hawkers-pet-python-zambia


claimant: Yoweri Museveni
claim_date: 2018-12-31T12:00:00Z
title: Was President Museveni right about Uganda’s development?
review_date: 2019-01-31T09:00:49Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Universal Primary Education and Universal Secondary Education have raised the level of the adult literacy rate from 43% to 75%.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-president-museveni-get-his-facts-right-about-ugandas-development


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:17:13Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
For the year under review all County Governments allocated out of their budgets at least 20% to health.


text: 12 million jobs created in Nigeria’s rice production industry.
claimant: Lauretta Onochie
claim_date: 2019-02-12T12:00:00Z
title: No proof for ‘12 million jobs’ in Nigeria’s rice industry, as presidential aide claimed
review_date: 2019-03-19T06:35:00Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-proof-12-million-jobs-nigerias-rice-industry-presidential-aide-claimed


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-04-25T12:00:00Z
title: Proof of vote rigging in Kenya’s UDA party nominations? No, photos taken in USA
review_date: 2022-04-25T10:20:44Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"An accident involving 2 UDA branded vehicles has exposed the rot in UDA nominations. One of the vehicles was found carrying UDA nominations ballot papers for Nyeri, Laikipia and Nyandarua counties"

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/proof-vote-rigging-kenyas-uda-party-nominations-no-photos


text: Nepali pastor burned alive for preaching the gospel
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-11T00:00:00Z
title: Does meme show pastor burned alive in Nepal for ‘preaching gospel’?
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/does-meme-show-pastor-burned-alive-nepal-preaching-gospel


claimant: President Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:21:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Today we have nearly 1 million children who are participating in early childhood development facilities.”


text: Kenya’s last recession was recorded in 1992.
claimant: Citizen TV website
claim_date: 2020-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s last economic recession was in 2002, not 1992 as major TV station claimed
review_date: 2020-11-10T11:06:49Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-last-economic-recession-was-2002-not-1992-major-tv-station-claimed


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gun control meme spreads to African countries
review_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “Owning guns is not a right… If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-gun-control-meme-spreads


claimant: William Ruto, Kenyan deputy president
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: From no-shows to walk-outs: Fact-checking Kenya’s presidential candidates debate
review_date: 2022-07-28T10:24:28Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“When Ruto was agriculture minister there was “an increase of five million bags of maize” after implementing fertiliser subsidies.”


claimant: A Facebook post
claim_date: 2019-07-10T12:00:00Z
title: Cowpox not deadly – and you can’t get it from cows, or from eating beef
review_date: 2019-12-11T13:56:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
800,000 cows poisoned with cowpox in Nigeria in 2019, so don’t eat beef. Share message and you could save lives.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/cowpox-not-deadly-and-you-cant-get-it-cows-or-eating-beef


text: Three claims about the powers the amendments would give the government
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-04-29T12:00:00Z
title: No, proposed amendments to National Health Act won’t violate South Africans’ right to privacy
review_date: 2022-04-29T12:37:00Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-proposed-amendments-national-health-act-wont-violate-south-africans-right


claimant: Neem Foundation
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Fraudulent and misleading’: why pricey herbal mix touted as a remedy for HIV falls flat
review_date: 2023-02-06T09:48:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Neem Foundation’s natural herbal formula can “flush the latent HIV” out of parts of the body where it has hidden, so that the body’s natural immunity can destroy the virus.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fraudulent-and-misleading-why-pricey-herbal-mix-touted-remedy-hiv-falls-flat


claimant: Peter Obi, Labour Party
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-13T08:09:20Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“In 2014, when I left office, in terms of poverty Anambra [was] number three with 11.2% after Lagos.”


text: Depo-Provera increases women’s risk of HIV infection by 40%.
claimant: Twitter
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Depo-Provera contraceptive injection doesn’t increase HIV risk by 40% – but more studies needed
review_date: 2020-06-09T08:09:29Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/depo-provera-contraceptive-injection-doesnt-increase-hiv-risk-40-more-studies


text: Video of ‘final moments’ before Ethiopian Airlines tragedy
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-10T00:00:00Z
title: Viral video not of ‘final moments’ before Ethiopian Airlines tragedy
review_date: 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/viral-video-not-final-moments-ethiopian-airlines-tragedy


claimant: Healthy First
claim_date: 2019-02-10T00:00:00Z
title: Blood type diet? No evidence for it, and no explanation why it would work
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Choose a diet based on your blood type to fight fatigue. People with blood type A should avoid animal-based protein and eat mainly plant protein and some seafood. People with blood type B should eliminate wheat and corn from their diet, while those with type AB should say goodbye to chicken. People with blood type O should not eat wheat products.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/blood-type-diet-no-evidence-it-and-no-explanation-why-it-would-work


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:27:54Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
So far, each of the 47 counties has met the two-thirds threshold on the appointment of the county executive committee members, with three counties of Kilifi, Nyeri and Kericho attaining a 50-50 representation.


text: Now Nigeria has the highest incidence of diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.
claimant: Philip Ikeme
claim_date: 2017-10-16T12:00:00Z
title: Does Nigeria have the most people with diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa?
review_date: 2017-11-01T11:14:25Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-nigeria-have-most-people-diabetes-sub-saharan-africa


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 5 claims by Kenyan President Kenyatta in national day speech
review_date: 2019-12-05T08:21:35Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Over the last six years, the counties of Kilifi, Kwale, Lamu, Mombasa, Taita Taveta and Tana River, have cumulatively received close to KSh190 billion from the national treasury.


text: Photo of execution of 26 politicians in China due to corruption
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-10T00:00:00Z
title: Execution of 26 corrupt Chinese politicians? No, 15-year-old photo of convicts being sentenced
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/execution-26-corrupt-chinese-politicians-no-15-year-old


text: Over 60% of our women give birth at the facilities of traditional birth attendants.
claimant: Dr Moyo Kasim, head of the Lagos State College of Health Technology
claim_date: 2021-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: No, 60% of women in Nigeria don’t give birth at traditional attendants’ facilities
review_date: 2021-03-31T10:11:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-60-women-nigeria-dont-give-birth-traditional-attendants-facilities


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: A tale of twists and turns in Kenyatta’s claims about improving Kenya’s roads
review_date: 2020-06-15T09:13:26Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘After independence, our Founding Fathers built an extra 11,200 kilometres of tarmacked roads. This was done in a period of 50 years by President Jomo Kenyatta, President Moi and President Kibaki, at an average of 224 kilometres per year.’

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/tale-twists-and-turns-kenyattas-claims-about-improving-kenyas-roads


text: Zambian nurse swaps 5,000 babies at birth for 12 years
claimant: Xpouzar.com
claim_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
title: No, a Zambian nurse didn’t swap 5,000 babies at birth for 12 years
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-zambian-nurse-didnt-swap-5000-babies-birth-12-years


text: Kenya’s parliament approves county funding based on five-year-old revenue data
claimant: Isaac Ruto
claim_date: 2019-05-22T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, Kenya’s county funding based on five-year-old national revenue figures
review_date: 2019-07-11T09:13:25Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-kenyas-county-funding-based-five-year-old-national-revenue-figures


text: Video showing floods in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-19T00:00:00Z
title: Cyclone Idai: ‘Must watch’ video of ‘flood in Mozambique’ is footage from 2011 tsunami in Japan
review_date: 2019-03-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/cyclone-idai-must-watch-video-flood-mozambique-footage-2011


text: Kenyan Singer Ringtone Apoko found dead in a waste bin in Karen.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
title: Kenyan gospel music star Ringtone Apoko is alive and well
review_date: 2019-07-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/kenyan-gospel-music-star-ringtone-apoko-alive-and-well


claimant: African National Congress
claim_date: 2019-01-12T12:00:00Z
title: ‘A better life for all?’ Fact-checking the ANC’s 2019 election manifesto
review_date: 2019-02-11T06:09:08Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"...at least 6 million workers who are currently being paid below the national minimum wage level of R20 an hour.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/better-life-all-fact-checking-ancs-2019-election-manifesto


claimant: Baringo county governor Stanley Kiptis
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Highest health spending in Kenya? Baringo county governor makes misleading claims
review_date: 2021-02-16T14:28:22Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Baringo [has] gone beyond the 35% ceiling on personnel emoluments as set in the constitution. We are at 55.7%.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/highest-health-spending-kenya-baringo-county-governor-makes-misleading-claims


claimant: The British Broadcasting Corporation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-08T04:12:19Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nigeria’s GDP per head … was $2,065 for 2021 (compared to $70,248 for the US and $46,510 for the UK).”


text: Russian laboratory’ invented way to remove black skin
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax alert! ‘Russian laboratory’ hasn’t invented way to ‘remove black skin’
review_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-russian-laboratory-hasnt-invented-way-remove


text: Over the past few years, hundreds of children have drowned in pit latrines in South Africa.
claimant: Global Citizen
claim_date: 2019-12-02T12:00:00Z
title: Have ‘hundreds’ of kids drowned in school pit latrines in South Africa?
review_date: 2019-01-24T18:16:44Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/have-hundreds-kids-drowned-school-pit-latrines-south-africa


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:11:10Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Diaspora remittances have surpassed traditional exports, “making human capital Kenya’s greatest export”.


claimant: Jimmy Wanjigi
claim_date: 2021-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-20T12:23:16Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“If you look at the growth patterns, the Kibaki period was phenomenal. We went from a negative 1% [growth rate under] Moi.”


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:20:16Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Our tax revenues have doubled from KSh800 billion in the financial year 2012/13 to KSh1.6 trillion as at April 2022.”


text: 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria
claimant: Daily Trust
claim_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
title: No new data shows that 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-new-data-shows-10-million-children-are-out-school-nigeria


text: South Africa is losing R35 million every day in tax revenue because of the ban on cigarettes.
claimant: Yusuf Abramjee
claim_date: 2020-04-29T12:00:00Z
title: Up in smoke: Roughly R35m in tobacco tax revenues lost daily during South Africa’s lockdown
review_date: 2020-06-17T08:33:42Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/smoke-roughly-r35m-tobacco-tax-revenues-lost-daily-during-south-africas


text: Canada uses fake potholes to slow down traffic, South Africa prefers the 3D method.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-31T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-canada-doesnt-slow-speedsters-fake-potholes-and-south

title:
No, Canada doesn’t slow speedsters with fake potholes – and South Africa’s ‘3D method’ is photo from Zimbabwe


text: South African prisoners get a monthly salary and bonus when done serving time
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-24T00:00:00Z
title: South African prisoners to earn salary? Facebook post copied from satire
review_date: 2019-05-02T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/south-african-prisoners-earn-salary-facebook-post-copied


claimant: Dr Gupta
claim_date: 2019-01-04T00:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/beware-false-cancer-cures-dr-gupta-facebook
title: Beware false cancer cures from ‘Dr Gupta’ on Facebook
review_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Cancer will disappear if patients stop eating sugar, drink lemon juice before meals for three months and take spoonfuls of coconut oil morning and night.


text: HIV injected into ‘bloody’ bananas
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2018-10-19T00:00:00Z
title: HOAX ALERT: HIV injected into ‘bloody’ bananas, again
review_date: 2018-10-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-hiv-injected-bloody-bananas-again


claimant: Cheryllyn Dudley
claim_date: 2018-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Do 200,000 abortions - many a ‘repeat’ - take place in South Africa each year?
review_date: 2018-06-07T13:00:40Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
With 200,000 abortions a year in South Africa - and many of these are repeat abortions; not a second, but a third, sometimes even a fourth - more information could help women make better choices re contraception and safer sex.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-200000-abortions-many-repeat-take-place-south-africa-each-year


claimant: Polycarp Igathe and Johnson Sakaja
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Sakaja vs Igathe debate: Fact-checking the frontrunners in 2022 Nairobi governor race
review_date: 2022-07-13T11:11:50Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The Kenya Revenue Authority has collected KSh2.2 trillion, 60% of that has come from the businesses and industries in Nairobi.”


text: “In the last three, four years of the previous administration, poverty was increasing.”
claimant: Samuel Tweah Jr
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: ELECTION CHECK: Three claims about president George Weah’s record on reducing poverty in Liberia
review_date: 2023-07-19T07:30:13Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/election-check-three-claims-about-president-george-weahs-record-reducing


claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2017-04-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-17-million-people-pay-80-sas-income-tax
title: Do 1.7 million people pay 80% of SA’s income tax?
review_date: 2017-05-09T12:16:32Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
In South Africa, about 1.7 million people (roughly 3% of the population) pay about 80% of income tax.


text: “Peter Obi’s promise to the north: more spareparts shops.”
claimant: Nigerian social media personality Adamu Garba
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-01-23T04:07:33Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/influencer-makes-misleading-claims-about-presidential-candidates-promises-vote

title:
Influencer makes misleading claims about presidential candidates’ promises to vote-rich northern Nigeria


text: Our unemployment [rate] is over 40%
claimant: Muthiora Eliud Kariara
claim_date: 2017-07-17T12:00:00Z
title: The man who debated himself: 2 claims by Kenya presidency hopeful rated
review_date: 2017-07-21T06:40:55Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/man-who-debated-himself-2-claims-kenya-presidency-hopeful-rated


text: “Annually, Nigeria loses over 99% children below the age of five.”
claimant: Nigerian non-profit Connected Development
claim_date: 2021-04-21T12:00:00Z
title: No, more than 99% of Nigerian children under 5 don’t die every year
review_date: 2021-04-29T11:47:09Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-more-99-nigerian-children-under-5-dont-die-every-year


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:14Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have connected approximately 787,000 households every year and with 2,000 connections a day since 2013.”


claimant: Various social media users and news outlets
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: World Health Organization not proposing an alcohol ban for ‘women of childbearing age’
review_date: 2021-06-24T09:25:56Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The World Health Organization has said women of child-bearing age should be banned from drinking alcohol

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/world-health-organization-not-proposing-alcohol-ban-women-childbearing-age


text: The social relief of distress grant has lifted 5 million people above the food poverty line.
claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-02-03T05:48:37Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-covid-grant-reached-95-million-and-lifted-5-million-poverty

title:
South Africa’s Covid grant reached 9.5 million and lifted 5 million from poverty? President Ramaphosa’s numbers don’t quite add up


text: Children ‘inherit intelligence’ from mother’s X chromosome
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-10-14T00:00:00Z
title: No, children don’t ‘inherit intelligence’ from mother’s X chromosome
review_date: 2019-06-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-children-dont-inherit-intelligence-mothers-x-chromosome


text: Elderly couple accidentally burns house down during sex game involving WW2 flamethrower
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-30T00:00:00Z
title: No, elderly couple didn’t burn down house after flamethrower sex game
review_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-elderly-couple-didnt-burn-down-house-after-flamethrower


text: Nigerian governor Willie Obiano urged his APGA party’s supporters to kill members of the PDP
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-09T00:00:00Z
title: Did Nigerian governor Willie Obiano urge his APGA party’s supporters to kill members of the PDP?
review_date: 2019-02-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/did-nigerian-governor-willie-obiano-urge-his-apga-partys


text: Hackers are posting ‘invisible sexual content’ on your Facebook wall
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2016-07-11T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax alert! No, hackers aren’t posting ‘invisible sexual content’ on your Facebook wall
review_date: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hoax-alert-no-hackers-arent-posting-invisible-sexual-content


text: Nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger
claimant: African Child Policy Forum (2019)
claim_date: 2019-06-05T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence ‘nearly half of all child deaths in Africa stem from hunger’
review_date: 2019-09-09T10:24:38Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-nearly-half-all-child-deaths-africa-stem-hunger


text: Photos of Malik Heights building fire in Nairobi, Kenya
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: Photos from US and Australia tweeted as Malik Heights building fire in Nairobi, Kenya
review_date: 2019-06-06T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/photos-us-and-australia-tweeted-malik-heights-building-fire-nairobi-kenya


text: “Nigeria’s unemployment rate is 33.3%.”
claimant: Social media and newspapers
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-24T08:59:03Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-nigeria-have-worlds-highest-unemployment-rate-several-newspapers-quote

title:
Does Nigeria have world’s highest unemployment rate? Several newspapers quote unreliable social media source


claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: Viral home remedy won’t cure your dog’s ‘cat flu’ – and could be toxic
review_date: 2022-08-23T09:58:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Potassium permanganate, combined with egg, protein powder and deworming pills, can cure parvovirus in dogs.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/viral-home-remedy-wont-cure-your-dogs-cat-flu-and-could-be-toxic


text: Fewer Nigerians are dying on the roads since the All Progressives Congress came into power in 2015.
claimant: Bola Tinubu, leader in the APC
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Better roads not reducing traffic deaths in Nigeria, as presidential hopeful claimed
review_date: 2022-02-21T09:47:58Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/better-roads-not-reducing-traffic-deaths-nigeria-presidential-hopeful-claimed


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya, chair of Kenya’s council of governors
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-kenyan-governors-claims-progress
title: Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress
review_date: 2020-12-01T08:20:57Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Counties have over the past year sustained an average allocation of 24% of their total budgets to the health sector.


text: There are 15 million undocumented foreigners in South Africa
claimant: South African politician and businessman Herman Mashaba
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Are there 15 million ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?
review_date: 2020-11-19T11:11:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/15-million-undocumented-foreigners-south-africa-herman-mashaba-wrong-again


claimant: Kenya’s Business Daily newspaper
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenyan newspaper right that tax revenue rose ‘fastest’ under president Kenyatta, but context is key
review_date: 2022-02-07T09:32:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Tax collections for the first half of the current financial year rose at the fastest pace since president Uhuru Kenyatta took power in 2013 …”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyan-newspaper-right-tax-revenue-rose-fastest-under-president-kenyatta


claimant: Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2020-04-08T12:00:00Z
title: Covid-19 pandemic: Fact-checking former Nigeria VP Abubakar’s claims about the economy
review_date: 2020-04-21T09:42:36Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Before the novel coronavirus pandemic hit the globe, Nigeria spent 42% of its earnings on debt servicing.


text: “We are contributing to the national government in excess of KSh49 billion in taxes annually."
claimant: Kenya Auto Bazaar Association
claim_date: 2019-02-05T12:00:00Z
title: Do Kenya’s used car dealers really pay KSh49 billion a year in import tax?
review_date: 2019-04-24T07:55:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-kenyas-used-car-dealers-really-pay-ksh49-billion-year-import-tax


claimant: The Buhari Media Organisation
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Checking three claims by pro-Buhari group about outgoing Nigerian president’s record
review_date: 2022-05-03T08:16:08Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nigeria now produces 9 million metric tonnes of rice today compared to 2 million metric tonnes in 2015.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checking-three-claims-pro-buhari-group-about-outgoing-nigerian-presidents


claimant: Prof Innocent Ujah
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘In search of greener pastures’: Checking five claims about Nigeria’s doctors and the brain drain
review_date: 2022-07-19T10:40:18Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“According to the World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has about 3% of the world’s health workers.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/search-greener-pastures-checking-five-claims-about-nigerias-doctors-and-brain


text: “Illegal foreigners contribute massively to our crime statistics.”
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-02-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-04T07:27:03Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/putting-old-claims-bed-no-evidence-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-massively

title:
Putting old claims to bed: no evidence undocumented immigrants ‘contribute massively’ to crime and ‘nothing’ to South Africa’s economy


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2018-05-02T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/uhuru-kenyattas-2018-state-nation-address-fact-checked
title: Uhuru Kenyatta's 2018 State of The Nation Address fact-checked
review_date: 2018-09-20T08:12:07Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
You might also recall the expansion of Last-Mile Connectivity, which has brought electricity to 71% of households, up from 27% in 2013.


text: No fewer than eight out of 10 Nigerian women wear wigs daily.
claimant: News Agency of Nigeria
claim_date: 2019-01-23T12:00:00Z
title: Eight in 10 Nigerian women wear wigs every day? No - just a bad hair day for the media
review_date: 2019-03-15T07:46:22Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/eight-10-nigerian-women-wear-wigs-every-day-no-just-bad-hair-day-media


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The ratio of police to citizens [rose] from one policeman to 1,000 citizens in 2012 to the current one policeman to 462 citizens”.


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-05T00:00:00Z
title: Photos show cars, traffic lights melted by fire – not record high temperatures in Kuwait
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Photos of melted cars and traffic lights show damage by the world’s highest temperatures yet, recorded in the Middle Eastern country of Kuwait.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photos-show-cars-traffic-lights-melted-fire-not-record-high


claimant: Pieter Groenewald
claim_date: 2018-02-19T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying key claims in SA's 2018 State of the Nation address debate
review_date: 2018-03-13T12:48:47Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Black students obtaining a university degree are more than double the number of white students at the moment.


text: Out of every R1 paid in taxes, 58 cents goes towards paying the salaries of public servants
claimant: Leon Schreiber, Democratic Alliance shadow minister for public service and administration
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: South Africa’s post-coronavirus budget
review_date: 2020-07-14T07:33:30Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-post-coronavirus-budget-more-half-tax-revenue-goes-public-servant


text: Nigeria’s debt has increased by N4 trillion in the past six years.
claimant: BizWatchNigeria.ng
claim_date: 2022-04-04T12:00:00Z
title: Online publication ties itself in knots in report on Nigeria’s debt profile
review_date: 2022-04-14T09:22:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/online-publication-ties-itself-knots-report-nigerias-debt-profile


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Six claims by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in 2021 national day speech
review_date: 2021-11-24T13:13:19Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The government “has progressively recruited an additional 36,900 healthcare workers in the last nine years, nearly a 100% increment in the country’s total public health workforce which currently stands at nearly 75,000 workers”.


claimant: Al Jazeera
claim_date: 2019-10-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Al Jazeera’s claims about Nigeria’s ‘mental health problem’
review_date: 2019-11-19T08:10:25Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
…[This is] six times smaller than the physician-patient ratio (one physician to every 600 doctors) recommended by WHO.


claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-10T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-06-10T11:28:04Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“I’m here with a reminder that your current president was an award winning policeman during apartheid,” reads a screenshot going viral on South African social media since May 2022.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-south-african-president-ramaphosa-wasnt-award-winning

title:
No, South African president Ramaphosa wasn’t ‘award-winning apartheid policeman’ – article on reservist training in late 1990s


text: 39% of Kenya’s youth are unemployed, according to census data
claimant: Business Daily newspaper
claim_date: 2020-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s youth unemployment at 39%? Why this headline-grabbing number is wrong
review_date: 2020-03-31T12:57:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/kenyas-youth-unemployment-39-why-headline-grabbing-number-wrong


text: Monkeypox spreads faster in men who have sex with men.
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Monkeypox does not spread faster in men who have sex with men – virus spreads through contact
review_date: 2022-07-08T08:15:37Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/monkeypox-does-not-spread-faster-men-who-have-sex-men-virus-spreads-through


claimant: President Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:27:38Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Since we launched the [Safe] initiative, 699 schools have been provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities and projects and a further 1,150 schools are either in planning, design or construction stages.”


text: Dangerous violin spider invading South African homes
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-10-31T00:00:00Z
title: Dangerous violin spider invading South African homes? Warning is ‘unfounded’
review_date: 2018-11-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/dangerous-violin-spider-invading-south-african-homes-warning


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:24:34Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The average development allocation by counties over the last six financial years has been 40% surpassing the legal requirement of at least 30%.


claimant: Areoye Oyebola
claim_date: 2017-10-09T12:00:00Z
title: Does a Nigerian lawmaker earn more than US President Donald Trump?
review_date: 2017-10-20T11:10:41Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
A Nigerian senator earns US$1.7 million annually far higher than the US$400,000 yearly income of the US president

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-nigerian-lawmaker-earn-more-us-president-donald-trump


text: Over a million Africans die in road accidents every year.
claimant: BBC podcast Focus on Africa
claim_date: 2021-05-26T12:00:00Z
title: Do ‘over a million’ Africans die in road accidents each year? No, global figure
review_date: 2021-06-03T07:20:22Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-over-million-africans-die-road-accidents-each-year-no-global-figure


claimant: Al Jazeera
claim_date: 2019-10-10T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: Al Jazeera’s claims about Nigeria’s ‘mental health problem’
review_date: 2019-11-19T08:01:50Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Yaba Psychiatric Hospital had a 2018 budget of N133 million (US$372,000) – but only N13 million ($36,000), or less than 10% of that amount, was released by the federal government.


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya, chair of Kenya’s council of governors
claim_date: 2020-07-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/verifying-kenyan-governors-claims-progress
title: Verifying Kenyan governors’ claims of progress
review_date: 2020-12-01T08:22:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
County governments have continued to adhere to the two-thirds gender principle. Three counties of Kilifi, Nyeri and Migori have gone higher and have a 50/50 representation of male and female CECs.


claimant: Getaway Magazine
claim_date: 2019-03-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-03-03T12:16:32Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Spekboom is more effective than the Amazon rainforest at sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-spekboom-isnt-more-effective-amazon-rainforest-sucking-carbon-out-atmosphere

title:
No, spekboom isn’t more effective than the Amazon rainforest at ‘sucking carbon’ out of the atmosphere


claimant: Neem Foundation
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Fraudulent and misleading’: why pricey herbal mix touted as a remedy for HIV falls flat
review_date: 2023-02-06T09:48:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
If “immune destroying bacteria”, like the type that causes syphilis, is killed, the body will then be able to fight off HIV infection – the HIV viral load will drop and CD4 count will increase.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fraudulent-and-misleading-why-pricey-herbal-mix-touted-remedy-hiv-falls-flat


text: The Western Cape has created 75% of jobs in South Africa in the past year
claimant: Democratic Alliance
claim_date: 2018-06-14T12:00:00Z
title: Did the DA-led Western Cape create ‘75% of all jobs’ in SA last year? ‘Confusing’ claim correct
review_date: 2018-06-21T09:25:57Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/did-da-led-western-cape-create-75-all-jobs-sa-last-year-confusing-claim-correct


text: Bill Gates “thinks a coming disease could kill 30 million people within 6 months".
claimant: Science Alert
claim_date: 2018-04-29T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Gates discussed computer simulation projecting 30m global deaths from modern flu in six months
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Checked
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/bill-gates-discussed-computer-simulation-projecting-30m


claimant: Labour and productivity minister Dr Chris Ngige
claim_date: 2023-03-01T12:00:00Z
title: Has unemployment in Nigeria risen fourfold since 2015? On the trail of a cabinet minister's claim
review_date: 2023-04-18T06:54:36Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The unemployment rate in the country has more than quadrupled since the economy slipped into recession, first in 2015 and later in 2020.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/has-unemployment-nigeria-risen-fourfold-2015-trail-cabinet-ministers-claim


claimant: ANC
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-10-21T08:44:48Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“[The ANC has] increased the total values of goods and services produced in South Africa (GDP) 10-fold, over the 25-year period, from 1994 to 2019.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/building-better-communities-together-fact-checking-african-national-congress

title:
‘Building better communities together’ – Fact-checking the African National Congress election manifesto


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2020-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying claims by Kenya’s president on electrification and title deeds
review_date: 2020-06-30T12:08:00Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“But from 2013, and in only 7 years of my presidency, we have connected close to 3.5 million households, bringing the number of households connected close to 8 million.”


text: 70% of the informal economy is “in the hands of non-citizens”.
claimant: Vuyolwethu Zungula
claim_date: 2021-02-16T12:00:00Z
title: South African MP wrongly claims 70% of informal economy ‘in hands of non-citizens’
review_date: 2021-03-16T06:05:50Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-african-mp-wrongly-claims-70-informal-economy-hands-non-citizens


text: An x-ray image shows a live cockroach in a patient's chest in Zimbabwe
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-10T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-01-18T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/creepy-x-ray-cockroach-zimbabwean-patients-chest-no-original

title:
Creepy X-ray of cockroach in Zimbabwean patient’s chest? No, original X-ray was of Marilyn Monroe’s chest


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-02-09T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-14T10:49:58Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Right now in our country, there are more than 25 million people who receive some form of income or support from the state.”


claimant: Ex-president Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:03:07Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“To curb water wastage, the Department of Water and Sanitation has begun its programme of training 15,000 young people as artisans.”


text: New cases of deadly Lassa fever in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital
claimant: Twitter user
claim_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
title: Hoax alert! No new cases of deadly Lassa fever in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital
review_date: 2019-02-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/hoax-alert-no-new-cases-deadly-lassa-fever-abuja-nigerias-capital


text: US ambassador endorsed APC’s Tonye Cole in Nigeria election
claimant: Tonye Cole
claim_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence US ambassador endorsed APC’s Tonye Cole in Nigeria election
review_date: 2019-01-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-us-ambassador-endorsed-apcs-tonye-cole-nigeria


claimant: Yusuf Cassim
claim_date: 2018-02-19T12:00:00Z
title: Verifying key claims in SA's 2018 State of the Nation address debate
review_date: 2018-03-22T08:32:13Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
[Of those] fortunate enough to get to matric and pass and enter university, half will drop out before they reach their second year.


text: Bill Cosby was framed with rape to ‘stop him buying NBC
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
title: Bill Cosby was not ‘framed with rape’ to ‘stop him buying NBC’
review_date: 2019-03-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/bill-cosby-was-not-framed-rape-stop-him-buying-nbc


claimant: Wycliffe Oparanya
claim_date: 2019-06-28T12:00:00Z
title: Claims on Kenya’s counties: fact-checking the 2019 State of Devolution Address
review_date: 2019-07-24T13:13:05Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
This is just 3% less of the 10% recommended allocation [for agriculture] as per the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Malabo declaration.


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:18:57Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We have almost tripled the wealth of our nation from a GDP of KSh4.5 trillion in 2013 to close to KSh13 trillion currently.”


claimant: Daily Maverick
claim_date: 2020-09-18T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence nearly 7,500 children die from ‘hunger’ each year in South Africa
review_date: 2020-10-29T07:06:05Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nearly 7,500 children under the age of five die annually in South Africa as a direct result of hunger.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-nearly-7500-children-die-hunger-each-year-south-africa


text: China is Kenya’s number one trading partner.
claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2018-12-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, China is Kenya’s biggest trading partner - but it’s not a balanced trade
review_date: 2018-12-03T10:56:01Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-china-kenyas-biggest-trading-partner-its-not-balanced-trade


claimant: Henry Rotich
claim_date: 2019-06-13T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya's 2019 budget speech: do finance minister’s numbers add up?
review_date: 2019-06-17T08:38:30Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“To date, 385 public entities have been registered in the portal, and 5,236 contracts published valued at Ksh 146.5 billion.”


text: CIA agent ‘Bill Oxley’ murdered Bob Marley with ‘cancer viruses’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
title: No, CIA agent ‘Bill Oxley’ didn’t confess to murdering Bob Marley with ‘cancer viruses’
review_date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-cia-agent-bill-oxley-didnt-confess-murdering-bob-marley


claimant: Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo
claim_date: 2019-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, teenagers account for 10% of deliveries in South Africa, but not half the maternal deaths
review_date: 2019-01-22T07:31:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Teenage pregnancy accounts for about 8 to 10% of all deliveries in the country, which is about a million deliveries per year

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-teenagers-account-10-deliveries-south-africa-not-half-maternal-deaths


claimant: WhatsApp user
claim_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
title: Viral message promising R30,000 from South African government a ‘blatant fake’
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
People who worked between 1990 and 2019 “have a right to withdraw R30,000” from South Africa’s government

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/viral-message-promising-r30000-south-african-government-blatant-fake


claimant: Jamyco
claim_date: 2019-03-20T00:00:00Z
title: Nigerian senate president Saraki has not returned to the ruling party
review_date: 2019-04-08T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Bukola Saraki, the president of Nigeria’s senate, had returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress just months after he left in protest

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/nigerian-senate-president-saraki-has-not-returned-ruling


text: Kenya is number seven in the whole world in terms of vaccination.
claimant: Dr Mercy Mwangangi, chief administrative secretary at Kenya’s health ministry
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Top official gets it wrong: Kenya nowhere near seventh in world for Covid-19 vaccination
review_date: 2021-05-10T08:23:07Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/top-official-gets-it-wrong-kenya-nowhere-near-seventh-world-covid-19


text: Iceland has a shortage of men and will pay immigrants up to $5,000 to marry Icelandic women.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z
title: Iceland not paying immigrants to marry country’s women - and has no shortage of men
review_date: 2019-07-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/iceland-not-paying-immigrants-marry-countrys-women-and-has


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-12-04T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence that drinking water at ‘the correct time’ has health benefits
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Drinking water at specific times of the day has health benefits that include preventing a heart attack

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-drinking-water-correct-time-has-health-benefits


claimant: Ernst Roets
claim_date: 2021-06-03T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
review_date: 2021-06-30T07:43:41Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Just 3.1% of black people over the age of 20 have university degrees compared to 13.9% and 18.3% for Indian and white people.


text: Three paedophiles shot, hanged from crane in Yemen for rape and murder of boy
claimant: News 360
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, three paedophiles shot, hanged from crane in Yemen for rape and murder of boy
review_date: 2019-06-27T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-three-paedophiles-shot-hanged-crane-yemen-rape-and


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-16T07:19:46Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nearly 42% of all adults and 60% of everyone over 50 years of age is fully vaccinated. And this is a real achievement that many countries on our continent have not been able to reach.”


claimant: Home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and a Twitter user
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-03-01T09:23:08Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The law says for anyone to serve in any government sphere, they must be born in South Africa and both parents must be South African.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/foreign-nationals-kids-born-south-africa-can-be-denied-citizenship-foreigners

title:
Foreign nationals’ kids born in South Africa can be denied citizenship, but foreigners may work in government


claimant: Adewole Adebayo, Social Democratic Party
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-12-13T08:09:11Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
‘I will put [at the helm of the central bank of Nigeria] for the first time in a long time, an economist.’


claimant: Polycarp Igathe and Johnson Sakaja
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
title: Sakaja vs Igathe debate: Fact-checking the frontrunners in 2022 Nairobi governor race
review_date: 2022-07-13T11:11:50Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nairobi has 11% of the voters. We have 2.4 million voters out of 22 million voters in the country.”


claimant: The Daily Archives
claim_date: 2019-03-03T00:00:00Z
title: South Africa’s president didn’t say ‘government will seize white property in cities’
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
President Cyril Ramaphosa said “white-owned property in South Africa’s cities and towns will be seized along with white farms in order to provide ‘high-density housing’ for blacks”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/south-africas-president-didnt-say-government-will-seize


claimant: Billow Kerrow, former Kenyan senator
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-03-01T08:56:42Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Kenyan officials have for the last 20 years claimed that one-third of revenues is going to be stolen.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/third-kenyas-budget-stolen-we-checked-former-senators-claim-about-much

title:
A third of Kenya’s budget stolen? We checked former senator’s claim about much-travelled corruption statistic


text: Coughing will save your life if you have a heart attack when no one else is around to help
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-07T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-05-22T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/incorrect-advice-and-absolute-myth-medical-experts-dismiss-life-saving-cough

title:
Incorrect advice and absolute myth: medical experts dismiss ‘life-saving cough CPR’ for heart attack when alone


text: As many as 80% of the inner city residents are undocumented foreigners.
claimant: Herman Mashaba
claim_date: 2017-08-15T12:00:00Z
title: Mayor’s claim - undocumented foreigners make up 80% of Joburg inner city - ‘absurd’
review_date: 2017-09-12T06:46:01Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/mayors-claim-undocumented-foreigners-make-80-joburg-inner-city-absurd


text: Hot coconut water kills cancer cells
claimant: WhatsApp group
claim_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
title: ‘No role for coconut oil in cancer treatment in humans’ – and it’s not good for the heart
review_date: 2019-06-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-role-coconut-oil-cancer-treatment-humans-and-its-not-good


text: Image by Japanese neurologist is a stress test
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-30T00:00:00Z
title: Fake Facebook ‘test’ by ‘Japanese neurologist’ tries to make people think they’re stressed
review_date: 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/fake-facebook-test-japanese-neurologist-tries-make-people


claimant: Graphic shared on social media
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-08-10T06:31:51Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Unemployment among black South Africans increased from 1.6 million in 1994 to 20.9 million in 2020, jumping by 15 million from 2019 because of the Covid pandemic.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-20-million-black-south-africans-unemployed-compared-16-million-1994-viral

title:
Are 20 million black South Africans unemployed, compared to 1.6 million in 1994? Viral graphic gets it wrong


text: An image showing what appears to be a freshly excavated mermaid skeleton
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-30T00:00:00Z
title: Skeleton of a mermaid? No, two real photos combined into one fake
review_date: 2019-06-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/skeleton-mermaid-no-two-real-photos-combined-one-fake


text: Elderly woman from Ohio trained 65 cats to steal from neighbours
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-22T00:00:00Z
title: No, elderly woman from Ohio did not train 65 cats to steal from neighbours
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-elderly-woman-ohio-did-not-train-65-cats-steal-neighbours


text: World record broken with woman giving birth to 17 babies from one pregnancy.
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-27T00:00:00Z
title: No, world record not broken with woman giving birth to 17 babies from one pregnancy
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-world-record-not-broken-woman-giving-birth-17-babies-one


claimant: Nigerian social media personality Adamu Garba
claim_date: 2023-01-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-01-23T04:07:31Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Tinubu’s promise to the north: Mambila hydropower; Lake Chad; AKK pipeline; commercialised agriculture; reform of Almajiri system.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/influencer-makes-misleading-claims-about-presidential-candidates-promises-vote

title:
Influencer makes misleading claims about presidential candidates’ promises to vote-rich northern Nigeria


claimant: Timeslive
claim_date: 2018-06-26T12:00:00Z
title: Does South Africa rank third in the world for online crime, losing R2.2bn a year?
review_date: 2018-08-02T07:18:08Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South Africa has the third highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide, losing about R2.2 billion a year in cyber attacks.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-south-africa-rank-third-world-online-crime-losing-r22bn-year


claimant: APC
claim_date: 2021-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria's top political parties debate Twitters Ghana decision
review_date: 2021-05-06T13:09:08Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Despite uncertainties over the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nigeria earned $2.6 billion of the global volume of foreign direct investment in 2020.


text: Abortion drugs discovered in Bill Gates’ vaccines
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z
title: 25 years on, rumour by US anti-contraceptive organisation still damages tetanus vaccine programmes
review_date: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/25-years-rumour-us-anti-contraceptive-organisation-still


text: Malaria kills an average of 300,000 people yearly in Nigeria.
claimant: WellaHealth
claim_date: 2019-08-23T12:00:00Z
title: No, malaria doesn’t kill 300,000 people in Nigeria a year, as insurance seller claimed
review_date: 2019-09-19T08:32:49Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-malaria-doesnt-kill-300000-people-nigeria-year-insurance-seller-claimed


text: Malaria kills more children under five than any other age group.
claimant: NPOReports website
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: Yes, malaria kills more kids under five than in any other age group. Here’s why
review_date: 2021-02-24T09:12:51Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/yes-malaria-kills-more-kids-under-five-any-other-age-group-heres-why


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-03T00:00:00Z
title: Fake quote has South Africa’s agriculture minister blaming white people for cold weather
review_date: 2019-06-17T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Our forefathers wore animal skins because South Africa was not this cold. But whites came with their gadgets and now we have these cold fronts

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/fake-quote-has-south-africas-agriculture-minister-blaming


claimant: William Ruto, president of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-30T07:38:21Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“... Safaricom alone has enrolled at least two million new subscribers into their financial ecosystem courtesy of the Hustler Fund.”


text: More bacteria found in men’s beards than dogs’ fur
claimant: The Daily Mail
claim_date: 2019-04-13T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, more bacteria found in men’s beards than dogs’ fur – in limited research
review_date: 2019-07-11T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-more-bacteria-found-mens-beards-dogs-fur-limited


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2015-12-07T00:00:00Z
title: Photos of counterfeit soft drink factory from Pakistan, not South Africa
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Warning against buying soft drinks from Indian and Somali shops and Pakistan related stores like Cambridge, Boxer and Nizams. "[A]ll those indigenous shops” get their soft drinks from fake factories. Instead, people should “make sure” they “buy cold drink” at Spar, Shoprite and other stores.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photos-counterfeit-soft-drink-factory-pakistan-not-south


text: Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari died in 2017
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
title: New claims that Nigeria’s president Buhari died in 2017 are still false
review_date: 2019-05-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/new-claims-nigerias-president-buhari-died-2017-are-still


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:53Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The number of primary schools increased from 26,549 to 32,437 and secondary schools from 7,174 to 10,413 between 2012 and 2020.”


claimant: Social media
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-16T07:39:15Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Under the bill, in order to secure a place at school, parents will need to provide proof of vaccination.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/fact-checked-three-misleading-claims-viral-video-about-proposed-changes-south

title:
Fact-checked: Three misleading claims in viral video about proposed changes to South Africa's basic education laws


text: Christian couple stripped for preaching gospel
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-02T00:00:00Z
title: Christian couple stripped for preaching gospel? No, photo shows naked protest by Dalit family
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/christian-couple-stripped-preaching-gospel-no-photo-shows


text: We have less than 500,000 mortgages. I think it is probably closer to 200,000 mortgages.
claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2018-12-28T12:00:00Z
title: 500,000 or 200,000? President’s numbers for mortgages in Kenya both wide of the mark
review_date: 2019-01-07T15:01:48Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/500000-or-200000-presidents-numbers-mortgages-kenya-both-wide-mark


text: Evolution drinks sold in Nigeria are poison
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-23T00:00:00Z
title: Evolution drinks aren’t poison – and aren’t sold in Nigeria
review_date: 2019-01-29T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/evolution-drinks-arent-poison-and-arent-sold-nigeria


text: The Hummingbird ‘Topaz’ is the smallest bird on earth
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-27T00:00:00Z
title: Smallest bird in the world? It’s hand-cut paper art
review_date: 2019-06-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/smallest-bird-world-its-hand-cut-paper-art


text: Kenya’s Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) arresting defaulters
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-23T00:00:00Z
title: Fake news! Kenya’s education loans board not arresting defaulters
review_date: 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/fake-news-kenyas-education-loans-board-not-arresting


text: Heart disease [accounts for] four times more [deaths] than murder.
claimant: Health24
claim_date: 2017-07-24T12:00:00Z
title: No, heart disease is not SA’s leading cause of death, as Health24 tweeted
review_date: 2017-09-06T07:53:48Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-heart-disease-not-sas-leading-cause-death-health24-tweeted


text: Flat earth 'theory' says Tunisia’s Jugurtha Tableland is the stump of an ancient giant tree
claimant: YouTube channel
claim_date: 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-01-24T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-flat-earth-conspiracy-theorists-cant-claim-tunisias

title:
No, flat earth conspiracy theorists can’t claim Tunisia’s Jugurtha Tableland as the stump of an ancient giant tree


claimant: Josphat Nanok
claim_date: 2018-06-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/hit-or-miss-5-claims-kenyan-governors-fact-checked
title: Hit or miss? 5 claims by Kenyan governors fact-checked
review_date: 2018-07-04T11:59:07Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
It is important to note that up to the 2017/18 financial year, county governments have received cumulative of KSh1.25 trillion shillings as equitable share


text: There are approximately 48,000 potholes across Johannesburg
claimant: Moneyweb article
claim_date: 2020-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: 48,000 potholes on Johannesburg’s roads? That’s not nearly the whole story
review_date: 2020-11-18T06:12:16Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/48000-potholes-johannesburgs-roads-thats-not-nearly-whole-story


text: Salaries for the 27,543 surplus Eskom employees amounts to R1.37 billion per year.
claimant: Twitter post
claim_date: 2022-09-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-11-03T09:45:52Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/overstaffing-and-billions-salaries-fact-checking-viral-claims-about-south

title:
Overstaffing and billions in salaries? Fact-checking viral claims about South Africa’s power utility Eskom


claimant: Dr William Ruto, the President of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-31T07:16:31Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“For the first time I am the one who pushed for the change of standing orders so that ministers of my administration can go to parliament and ask questions.”


claimant: South African opposition parties
claim_date: 2023-08-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-08-25T09:40:45Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“There are 14 million South Africans who have not voted in the last two elections.” – John Steenhuisen, DA


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-02-09T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-10T11:51:12Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Last year, the 4th South Africa Investment Conference raised R367 billion in investment commitments, bringing our five-year investment target firmly within sight.”


claimant: Online Graphic
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/police-violence-south-africa-what-do-numbers-show
title: Police violence in South Africa: what do the numbers show?
review_date: 2020-09-14T07:19:32Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The South African Police Service kills three times more people per capita than the United States police force


text: South Africa has the fifth-highest Covid-19 infection rate in the world.
claimant: The New York Times
claim_date: 2020-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: New York Times gets it wrong: South Africa doesn’t have fifth highest Covid-19 infection rate
review_date: 2020-08-25T09:55:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-south-africa-doesnt-have-fifth-highest-covid-19


text: ‘HOSPITAL’ means House Of Sick People Including Treatment and Labour
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-03-26T00:00:00Z
title: ‘Hospital’ isn’t acronym for ‘house of sick people including treatment and labour’
review_date: 2019-07-05T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/hospital-isnt-acronym-house-sick-people-including-treatment


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:10Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“When the Covid pandemic hit our country, we had an ICU bed capacity of only 180 beds countrywide ... We increased the ICU bed capacity by 502% during the Covid period.”


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: 5 claims by Kenyan President Kenyatta in national day speech
review_date: 2019-12-05T08:28:57Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Under this administration… at Kilindini we have more than doubled the volume of cleared cargo passing [through] the port annually.”


claimant: Nigeria Justice minister Abubakar Malam
claim_date: 2021-11-05T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-12-10T08:26:33Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Nigeria ranked between 12th and 13th across the globe and used to be among the top three African countries with impunity for crimes against journalists only after Somalia and South Sudan.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-absence-global-impunity-index-evidence-better-press-freedom-and-human

title:
Is Nigeria’s absence from global impunity index evidence of better press freedom and human rights, as justice minister claimed?


text: Half the kids who drink before the age of 18 develop alcohol dependency.
claimant: Aware.org
claim_date: 1970-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence that half the kids who drink before 18 develop alcohol problems
review_date: 2019-11-28T09:53:32Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-half-kids-who-drink-18-develop-alcohol-problems


text: Out-of-pocket expenses on healthcare amounted to close to 76% of total healthcare expenditure.
claimant: Central bank governor Godwin Emefiele
claim_date: 2021-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Is Nigeria’s central bank governor on the money about health insurance and out-of-pocket payments?
review_date: 2021-06-09T09:29:33Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/nigerias-central-bank-governor-money-about-health-insurance-and-out-pocket


claimant: The Buhari Media Organisation
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Checking three claims by pro-Buhari group about outgoing Nigerian president’s record
review_date: 2022-05-03T08:16:07Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The Buhari administration established “a social protection scheme that is the largest in sub-Saharan Africa”.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/checking-three-claims-pro-buhari-group-about-outgoing-nigerian-presidents


claimant: Nigeria-based NPO Health of Mother Earth Foundation
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigerian NGO fails to support claims about country’s corn output and its alleged medical use
review_date: 2023-06-14T03:54:54Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Respiratory illnesses such as asthma and bronchitis can be treated by boiling the leaves [of corn] and inhaling the steam.”


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:39:59Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The previous administrations combined issued 6 million title deeds to Kenyans in five [50] years; in the last seven years my administration has issued 5.1 million title deeds.”


text: Bill Gates investing ‘another’ $5 billion in South Africa
claimant: Couple of Happiness
claim_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
title: Is Bill Gates investing ‘another’ $5 billion in South Africa?
review_date: 2019-02-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False headline
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/bill-gates-investing-another-5-billion-south-africa


claimant: Xpouzar.com
claim_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
South African businessman Patrice Motsepe offered EFF leader Julius Malema R4 billion to quit politics

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-south-african-businessman-patrice-motsepe

title:
No evidence South African businessman Patrice Motsepe offered EFF leader Julius Malema R4 billion to quit politics


text: Nigerian presidential rival Atiku Abubakar watching Buhari inauguration on TV
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: Nigerian presidential rival Atiku watching Buhari inauguration on TV? Photo is fake
review_date: 2019-06-04T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/nigerian-presidential-rival-atiku-watching-buhari


claimant: Various South African organisations
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2021-08-20T06:35:49Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“It is estimated that three out of 10 girls in South Africa miss school during their periods each month.”

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/do-3-10-girls-south-africa-miss-school-because-they-lack-sanitary-pads-ghost

title:
Do 3 in 10 girls in South Africa miss school because they lack sanitary pads? Ghost stat widely cited


claimant: Health Rapport Naija
claim_date: 2016-06-13T00:00:00Z
title: Tomato paste and Coke an emergency tonic for blood donors? No, say experts
review_date: 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Tomato paste and Coca-Cola is an emergency blood tonic given to people who have just donated blood, lost a high amount of blood and people that experience dizziness.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/tomato-paste-and-coke-emergency-tonic-blood-donors-no-say-experts


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2022-06-30T12:00:00Z
title: #KenyaDecides2022: Fact-checking William Ruto’s manifesto ahead of presidential election
review_date: 2022-08-08T12:37:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Food imports have increased from 10% to 17% of goods imports over the last decade which, in actual terms, translates to a 2.5-fold increase from $1.2 billion to $3 billion.”


text: South Africa is “number one in the killing of women” internationally.
claimant: Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s minister of social development
claim_date: 2020-06-25T12:00:00Z
title: Minister Zulu wrong. South Africa ranks high, but not ‘number one in the killing of women’
review_date: 2020-06-30T08:59:38Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/minister-zulu-wrong-south-africa-ranks-high-not-number-one-killing-women


text: Arnold Schwarzenegger sleeping under his statue after being turned away from hotel
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-02T00:00:00Z
title: No, photo doesn’t show Schwarzenegger sleeping under his statue after being turned away from hotel
review_date: 2019-05-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-photo-doesnt-show-schwarzenegger-sleeping-under-his


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-06-18T00:00:00Z
title: No, black woman didn’t die on Titanic because lifeboats were for white people only
review_date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Titanic victim Malinda Borden was drowned at sea she was working aboard the Titanic. Lifeboats were made available to white women and white children only.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-black-woman-didnt-die-titanic-because-lifeboats-were


text: In their history, Nigerian universities have not had more than 15 vice-chancellors.
claimant: The Guardian newspaper, Nigeria
claim_date: 2019-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Over 15 female vice-chancellors have led Nigerian universities
review_date: 2019-12-06T05:44:06Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/more-15-female-vice-chancellors-have-led-nigerian-universities-higher-education


claimant: The APC’s Kashim Shettima and Festus Keyamo
claim_date: 2022-08-01T12:00:00Z
title: #NigeriaDecides2023: Ruling APC party chiefs fall flat with TV claims about the economy
review_date: 2022-09-14T06:41:05Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The growth of Lagos’ internally generated revenue from N600 million to N51 billion monthly is the record of Bola Tinubu.”


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-01-08T12:00:00Z
title: ANC at 107: Eight birthday claims by party leader Ramaphosa fact-checked
review_date: 2019-01-11T07:27:08Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
More South Africans are living longer with average life expectancy increasing to 64 years in 2018 from a low of 53 years in 2005.


text: Giant human skeleton discovered in Mexico
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
title: Giant human skulls in Mexico? No, photoshopped image entered in design competition
review_date: 2019-06-14T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Fake
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/giant-human-skulls-mexico-no-photoshopped-image-entered


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-02-07T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-facts-verifying-cyril-ramaphosas-sona2019-claims
title: ramaphosa
review_date: 2019-02-07T20:59:25Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Over the past five years, we’ve made significant progress with the provision of infrastructure. More than R1.3 trillion has been invested to build [infrastructure including] hundreds of thousands of new homes…


claimant: Ex-president Jacob Zuma
claim_date: 2020-02-13T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africas-state-nation-address-2016-2019-review
title: South Africa’s state of the nation address: 2016 to 2019 in review
review_date: 2020-02-13T05:12:30Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Government is actively involved in the property sector, having provided more than 4 million houses since 1994.”


claimant: President Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2022-02-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checked: South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s sixth state of the nation address
review_date: 2022-02-17T08:57:26Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Invariably, the majority of [young people] always find permanent employment once they are brought in through this program.”


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
title: Dangerous hoax! DO NOT type your PIN in backwards if you’re mugged at an ATM
review_date: 2019-05-31T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Enter your PIN number backwards and the police will be alerted if you're being threatened at an ATM.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/dangerous-hoax-do-not-type-your-pin-backwards-if-youre


text: “Pfizer CEO Vows To Re-Build The ‘Iconic’ Georgia Guidestones.”
claimant: Facebook post
claim_date: 2022-07-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2022-07-18T13:05:49Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-new-york-times-didnt-report-pfizer-ceo-bourla-plans

title:
No, New York Times didn’t report that Pfizer CEO Bourla plans to rebuild ‘satanic’ Georgia Guidestones


text: Filters can “eat any form of virus including coronavirus” on aeroplanes.
claimant: Fikile Mbalula, South Africa’s transport minister
claim_date: 2020-06-29T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2020-08-20T08:09:21Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/hepa-filters-capture-virtually-all-viruses-and-bacteria-air-dont-eat-any-form

title:
HEPA filters capture virtually all viruses and bacteria from air, but don’t ‘eat any form of virus’ on planes


text: Kenya’s government gets billions of dollars from Kericho’s tea but the county receives nothing.
claimant: Paul Chepkwony
claim_date: 2018-09-11T12:00:00Z
title: Does Kenya’s tea-rich Kericho county get ‘nothing’ for its green gold?
review_date: 2018-11-15T10:29:42Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/does-kenyas-tea-rich-kericho-county-get-nothing-its-green-gold


text: South Africa is the only country in Africa that releases crime statistics.
claimant: Bheki Cele
claim_date: 2019-09-12T12:00:00Z
title: No Minister Cele: SA not only country in Africa giving out crime stats
review_date: 2019-09-20T06:30:27Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-minister-cele-sa-not-only-country-africa-giving-out-crime-stats


claimant: Kenyan finance minister Ukur Yatani
claim_date: 2022-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: As Kenya’s president eyes exit, we fact-checked his administration’s last budget speech
review_date: 2022-04-21T07:13:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Of this, 73% is from green sources thus consolidating Kenya’s lead in generation of green energy in Africa.”


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2023-02-09T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-02-10T11:51:11Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Too many of our municipalities, 163 out of 257, are dysfunctional or are in distress due to poor governance, ineffective and sometimes corrupt administrative financial management, and poor service delivery”


text: At least 30 000 children are prostituted through human trafficking annually in South Africa
claimant: Roxanne Rawlins
claim_date: 2013-10-07T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2017-07-20T12:32:30Z
textual_rating: Understated/exaggerated
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/are-30000-children-really-trafficked-south-africa-every-year-claim-exaggerates

title:
Are 30,000 children really 'trafficked' in South Africa every year? The claim exaggerates the problem


claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z
title: No, giving birth can’t be measured in ‘del’ or said to be ‘equal to breaking 20 bones’
review_date: 2019-07-10T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
A human body can bear only up to 45 “DEL” (unit) of pain. A mother feels up to 57 DEL of pain while giving birth which is equal to 20 bones getting fractured.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-giving-birth-cant-be-measured-del-or-said-be-equal


claimant: Dr William Ruto, the President of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-31T07:16:30Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The fiscal deficit, you know, the money we are borrowing, we have reduced it from KSh1.1 trillion last year to KSh630 billion this year. We have reduced almost KSh500 billion.”


text: ‘Newspaper’ is an acronym of ‘North, East, West, South, Past and Present Events Report’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-01-21T00:00:00Z
title: No, ‘newspaper’ is not an acronym of ‘North, East, West, South, Past and Present Events Report’
review_date: 2019-01-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-newspaper-not-acronym-north-east-west-south-past-and


claimant: William Ruto, president of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-06-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-06-30T07:38:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“A huge number of Kenyans, about 10 million, had … been blacklisted by the credit reference bureaus …”


text: Bumblebee has been added to a list of endangered species
claimant: Health Food House
claim_date: 2019-04-17T00:00:00Z
title: Yes, the bumblebee has been added to a list of endangered species
review_date: 2019-05-16T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/yes-bumblebee-has-been-added-list-endangered-species


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:24:16Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"Today, more than 17.1 million Kenyans are covered by the National Hospital Insurance Fund, compared to 4.4 million in 2013."


text: Almost 100% of restaurant workers in South Africa are foreign.
claimant: Finance minister Tito Mboweni
claim_date: 2020-04-01T12:00:00Z
title: Tito Mboweni claims 100% restaurant workers are foreign nationals
review_date: 2020-12-04T10:21:34Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/almost-100-restaurant-workers-south-africa-are-foreign-official-data-disproves


text: Photos of Sri Lankan ‘2019 Easter bomb victims’
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-24T00:00:00Z
title: Photos of Sri Lankan ‘2019 Easter bomb victims’ actually from 2006 bus attack
review_date: 2019-05-15T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/photos-sri-lankan-2019-easter-bomb-victims-actually-2006-bus


claimant: Exclusive 103
claim_date: 2019-03-09T00:00:00Z
title: No, court hasn’t declared Nigeria’s presidential election ‘null and void’
review_date: 2019-03-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
Nigeria’s supreme court has given President Muhammadu Buhari, the winner of the recent presidential election, five days to vacate Aso Rock – the presidential villa.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/no-court-hasnt-declared-nigerias-presidential-election-null-and-void


claimant: Rees Mann
claim_date: 2017-05-08T12:00:00Z
title: Levels of child sexual abuse in South Africa even higher than activist claimed
review_date: 2017-05-31T14:48:01Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
One in 4 females will be sexually abused before the age of 18 and one in 6 boys will be sexually abused

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/levels-child-sexual-abuse-south-africa-even-higher-activist-claimed


claimant: South African radio station, Cape Talk
claim_date: 2022-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: 100 million people with persistent coronavirus symptoms? Two ‘long Covid’ stats, investigated
review_date: 2022-02-09T08:01:45Z
textual_rating: Unproven
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
It's estimated that close to 100 million people globally are suffering the long-term after-effects of being infected with SARS-CoV-2.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/100-million-people-persistent-coronavirus-symptoms-two-long-covid-stats


text: Marshmallow eggs are satanic demon embryos that ‘hatch inside your child’
claimant: Facebook page
claim_date: 2016-03-31T00:00:00Z
title: Marshmallow eggs satanic demon embryos that ‘hatch inside your child’? Relax – it’s satire
review_date: 2019-05-20T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Satire
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/marshmallow-eggs-satanic-demon-embryos-hatch-inside-your


claimant: Neem Foundation
claim_date: 2022-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: ‘Fraudulent and misleading’: why pricey herbal mix touted as a remedy for HIV falls flat
review_date: 2023-02-06T09:48:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“If someone’s immunity is strong, the HIV cannot survive in that person’s body. It will be eliminated by [the] body’s own natural Immune system immediately [when] someone is exposed to it.”


claimant: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: Fact-checking president Uhuru Kenyatta’s claims about his legacy
review_date: 2021-07-22T13:39:58Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The combined administrations of Mzee [Jomo] Kenyatta, Mzee [Daniel arap] Moi and Mzee [Mwai] Kibaki increased this national cake to KSh4.5 trillion in a span of 50 years.”


claimant: Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2019-04-04T12:00:00Z
url: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/state-nation-2019-did-kenyatta-get-his-facts-right
title: State of the Nation 2019: Did Kenyatta get his facts right?
review_date: 2019-04-09T11:28:51Z
textual_rating: Mostly correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
"We have made tremendous gains… over the last six years, with the number of electricity connections rising from 2.2 million in March 2013 to 7.1 million as at March 2019."


claimant: Former Nigeria vice president Atiku Abubakar
claim_date: 2020-04-08T12:00:00Z
title: Covid-19 pandemic: Fact-checking former Nigeria VP Abubakar’s claims about the economy
review_date: 2020-04-21T09:44:46Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa is projecting that Africa’s growth will drop to 1.8%, and perhaps lower.


text: We deliver 1,200 houses per day
claimant: Lindiwe Sisulu
claim_date: 2017-05-18T12:00:00Z
title: No evidence for SA government’s ‘truly amazing’ house delivery rate
review_date: 2017-05-25T13:55:11Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/no-evidence-sa-governments-truly-amazing-house-delivery-rate


claimant: ANC Youth League
claim_date: 2021-01-01T12:00:00Z
title: ANC Youth League promotes debunked steam and pH ‘cures’ for Covid-19
review_date: 2021-01-12T14:02:47Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
The pH level of coronavirus varies from 5.5 to 8.5. Therefore all we have to do to eliminate the virus is to consume more alkaline foods above the acidity level of the virus.

url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/anc-youth-league-promotes-debunked-steam-and-ph-cures-covid-19


text: Black porters carrying white tourists in Kenya’s Maasai Mara
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
title: Photo of black porters carrying white tourists not colonial flashback in Kenya’s Maasai Mara
review_date: 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/spotchecks/photo-black-porters-carrying-white-tourists-not-colonial-flashback-kenyas


text: Kenya removing pockets from police uniforms to ‘fight corruption’
claimant: Afrikan Daily
claim_date: 2019-02-06T00:00:00Z
title: No, Kenya isn’t removing pockets from police uniforms to ‘fight corruption’
review_date: 2019-02-25T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-kenya-isnt-removing-pockets-police-uniforms-fight


claimant: William Ruto
claim_date: 2019-02-08T12:00:00Z
title: Kenya’s Ruto at Chatham House: verifying the deputy president’s London speech
review_date: 2019-02-25T08:49:46Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
It is a constitutional requirement… that when the president is away, the deputy president must be in the country.


text: South Africa beat its climate goal as load shedding slashed emissions.
claimant: Social media posts
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
title: South Africa ‘beats climate goal’ through load shedding? Why this viral claim misleads
review_date: 2023-08-29T07:28:35Z
textual_rating: Misleading
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-africa-beats-climate-goal-through-load-shedding-why-viral-claim-misleads


text: Sow gives birth to piglet with human face
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z
review_date: 2019-01-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/sow-kakamega-birthed-piglet-human-face-photos-actually

title:
Sow in Kakamega birthed piglet with human face? Photos actually of ‘silicon sculptures for art collectors’


claimant: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari
claim_date: 2021-10-01T12:00:00Z
title: Nigeria at 61: checking president Buhari's 2021 Independence Day claims
review_date: 2021-10-12T06:47:51Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“We currently have over 13,000 kilometres of roads and bridges under construction all over the country.”


claimant: Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2022-06-01T12:00:00Z
title: The last hurrah: Kenya’s president mangles the numbers in his final national day address – again
review_date: 2022-06-06T12:13:20Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
We have “also secured 100% transition from primary to secondary education, ensuring that no child is left behind”.


text: South African Airways has not made a profit since 2011
claimant: South African news reports
claim_date: 2018-11-27T12:00:00Z
title: South African Airways has lost billions in seven unprofitable years
review_date: 2018-12-04T14:25:54Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/south-african-airways-has-lost-billions-seven-unprofitable-years


text: Weird creature in Murang’a, Kenya
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2019-04-06T00:00:00Z
title: Weird creature in Murang’a, Kenya? No, another silicone sculpture by Italian artist Laira Maganuco
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/weird-creature-muranga-kenya-no-another-silicone-sculpture


claimant: Cyril Ramaphosa
claim_date: 2019-01-08T12:00:00Z
title: ANC at 107: Eight birthday claims by party leader Ramaphosa fact-checked
review_date: 2019-01-11T07:19:55Z
textual_rating: Correct
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
More than 4.3 million South Africans who are living with HIV receive antiretroviral treatment, making it the biggest programme in the whole world.


claimant: Dr William Ruto, the President of Kenya
claim_date: 2023-05-01T12:00:00Z
review_date: 2023-05-31T07:16:33Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“Five million youth in our country Kenya are struggling by the roads and loitering by shops, jobless”


text: Nigerian opposition’s Atiku Abubakar paid generals $10m to overthrow President Buhari
claimant: My State News
claim_date: 2019-05-17T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Nigerian opposition’s Atiku paid generals $10m to overthrow President Buhari
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-nigerian-oppositions-atiku-paid-generals-10m


text: Holes in foot caused by stepping on the bible
claimant: Facebook user
claim_date: 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z
title: Holes in foot created with makeup, not caused by stepping on the bible
review_date: 2019-05-28T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: Hoax
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/holes-foot-created-makeup-not-caused-stepping-bible


text: Kim Jong Un asked to colonise Nigeria and Ghana
claimant: Abia Pulse News
claim_date: 2019-02-11T00:00:00Z
title: No evidence Kim Jong-un asked to colonise Nigeria and Ghana
review_date: 2019-02-13T00:00:00Z
textual_rating: False
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-checks/no-evidence-kim-jong-un-asked-colonise-nigeria-and-ghana


claimant: President Uhuru Kenyatta
claim_date: 2021-11-01T12:00:00Z
title: Wrong again: Fact-checking Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta’s 2021 state of the nation address
review_date: 2021-12-09T14:21:17Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
text:
“The police to population ratio today is at its highest level ever, as prescribed by the UN standard.”


text: Over 40% of primary school teachers are unqualified
claimant: Oando Foundation
claim_date: 2018-07-19T12:00:00Z
title: Number of qualified primary school teachers and grade 6 literacy in Nigeria higher than claimed
review_date: 2018-09-17T10:47:31Z
textual_rating: Incorrect
language_code: en
publisher_name: Africa Check
publisher_site: africacheck.org
url:
https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/reports/number-qualified-primary-school-teachers-and-grade-6-literacy-nigeria-higher


