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 ...

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 ...

As of 31 December 2024, a cumulative total of 457,129 cholera cases, including 8,181 deaths, have been reported since 1 January 2022. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the International LGBTI Association (ILGA), 33 of the 54 African countries recognised by the United Nations have laws that criminalise same-sex sexual acts and diverse gender expressions.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) released the final list of candidates contesting for the presidency in the 2023 general elections. Inec said that 18 parties had fielded ...

According to the October 2025 Household Affordability Index, approximately 64.2% of Black South Africans live below the upper poverty line, which is set at R1,634 per person per month. This equates to ...

A short video has been posted on Twitter in Kenya with claims that it shows chaos erupting during United Democratic Alliance (UDA) party nominations ahead of general elections scheduled for August ...

A quote attributed to Kenyan politician Martha Karua, the party leader of Narc Kenya, has been widely shared on Facebook. In it, Karua appears to vow she won’t “share a platform with thieves, social ...

An ad posted on Facebook claims Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS) is running “recruitment for police constables” across all 47 counties of the country. The ad says the application is open for ...

A message posted on Facebook in Nigeria claims that a “home remedy” can aid the thyroid, preventing “mouth odour, infection of the lung sometimes swelling of the neck (goiter)”. It advises making a ...