When news websites appropriate news photographs as catch-all illustrations they lie to their readers and show contempt for news photographers, says Africa Check editor, Julian Rademeyer. The image on the front page of the TimesLive news website was powerful. A car shrouded in black smoke burned furiously, flames licking out of smashed windows. The headline accompanying the […] Read more
Have 36 million South Africans been given access to proper sanitation since 1994? Is the country’s basic education department replacing a “mud school a week” in the impoverished Eastern Cape province? Do 400 000 white South Africans live in squatter camps? Have levels of violent crime in South Africa really gone down in the past […] Read more