Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all goods and services that a country produces in a given time period. Livestock is a sub-sector of agriculture that includes animals used to ...

The Police Service's latest crime statistics covering October to December 2024 recorded 6,953 murders, a 9.8% decrease from the same period in 2023. Of these, 961 victims were women, meaning around 10 ...

A message shared on Facebook in Nigeria advertises a “herbal cure for athritis”, listing common foods such as grapes, lime, honey, ginger and garlic as the healing ingredients. The post includes a ...

“White bat one of the most scarce in the world,” reads a Facebook post doing the rounds in South Africa. It shows four photos of a person holding what seems to be a small white bat striking different ...

Namibia and South Africa are the only countries in Africa that have legal procedures to change a person’s name and gender marker on identity documents. These two processes give trans and gender ...

We used data from The World Bank and the Kenyan National Bureau of Statistics, and only included police officers ‘on the ground’ (excluding administrative staff). Kenya’s police to population ratio in ...

IN SHORT: FNB, one of South Africa’s largest banks, is not offering learnerships for 2026 through unverified links circulating on social media. Follow the bank’s official website and social media ...

“Garlic helps remove pain in ears, ear infections and headaches quickly and effectively,” claims a message posted on Facebook in Nigeria. It adds: “Simply, put a cleaned garlic clove in your ear - it ...

In 2023, South Africa had 22,511 public schools, excluding early childhood development centres and special schools. Public education is funded by government through a pro-poor model that creates five ...

An “unbelievable fact” shared on Facebook in Kenya and Nigeria claims that termite queens lay more than a hundred million eggs in their lifetime. The text below a close-up photo of a huge termite ...

“Coca-Cola company is currently recruiting at least 200 works across Nairobi county,” reads a job ad posted on Facebook in Kenya in early May 2022. The post promises “available opportunities” for ...

A Facebook post claims a mixture of natural ingredients can be used as “Natural Antibiotics” for “all kinds of sickness”, including Covid-19. It was first posted in Fiji on 14 June 2020 and has since ...