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Trump’s Oval Office drama: Unpacking the misleading claims about South Africa’s 'white genocide'

South Africa, Maverick News

Trump’s Oval Office drama: Unpacking the misleading claims about South Africa’s 'white genocide'

by: Rebecca Davis

Has Russia really turned on South Africa over the land issue?

Maverick News

Has Russia really turned on South Africa over the land issue?

by: Rebecca Davis

Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation

Maverick Life

Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation

by: Ned Watt, Michelle Riedlinger and Silvia Montaña-Niño

Fact-Check – Did Helen Zille call MK and EFF politicians “dogs”?

Politics, South Africa

Fact-Check – Did Helen Zille call MK and EFF politicians “dogs”?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact Check: Is SA’s new Home Affairs minister Zimbabwean?

Politics, South Africa, Maverick News

Fact Check: Is SA’s new Home Affairs minister Zimbabwean?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact Check: Has a senior IEC official been arrested over election fraud?

South Africa, Maverick News

Fact Check: Has a senior IEC official been arrested over election fraud?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact Check: Was Cyril Ramaphosa an apartheid collaborator?

South Africa, Maverick News

Fact Check: Was Cyril Ramaphosa an apartheid collaborator?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact check — could a government of national unity include two deputy presidents?

South Africa, Maverick News

Fact check — could a government of national unity include two deputy presidents?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact check — can an MK party boycott prevent Parliament from electing a President?

South Africa, Maverick News

Fact check — can an MK party boycott prevent Parliament from electing a President?

by: Rebecca Davis

Fact check — Was Jacob Zuma’s presidency one of ‘9 amazing years’ as his daughter claims?

Business Maverick, Politics, South Africa, Maverick News

Fact check — Was Jacob Zuma’s presidency one of ‘9 amazing years’ as his daughter claims?

by: Rebecca Davis

How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false

Maverick Life

How to tell if a conspiracy theory is probably false

by: H. Colleen Sinclair

Five things we know about the elections right now

South Africa

Five things we know about the elections right now

by: Rebecca Davis