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A news story saying that South Africa’s health minister urged men not to undergo voluntary circumcision as it can cause cancer of the penis is going viral. Not only is the claim false – the very opposite is true.
The director of a health think-tank recently said South Africans are the 8th highest consumers of sugar worldwide. Available but incomplete data ranks the country much lower.
Medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders said that more people are dying of tuberculosis but the claim is misleading.
A commentator recently claimed that South Africa is the third most obese country in the world. But data from the WHO strongly contradicts this.
A website that campaigns against food wastage claimed that households in Europe and the US throw out 15 times more food than those in Africa.
Does the City of Johannesburg stand apart for having an equal number of women and men serving on its mayoral committee? Business LIVE misquoted the spokesman of the city’s new mayor, Herman Mashaba.
A picture of little Jake Amo drawing in his Ghanaian classroom has flooded the internet as a meme. Not everyone is amused, though.
Agitating that #DataMustFall, some have claimed that South Africans spend close to a quarter of their income on data. But surveys from South Africa’s national statistics agency and the University of Cape Town tell a different story.
During a recent US-Africa forum in New York, United States president Barack Obama said that all of Africa produces about as much as France. We crunched the numbers to check if he is correct.
A much circulated statistic claims that a child goes missing every 5 hours in South Africa but it is based on outdated data.
