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Earlier on Wednesday, Eskom chief financial officer Calib Cassim explained that the key driver behind the tariff increases is that the power utility can no longer depend on continued financial support from the government.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Did 34% of households have access to electricity in 1994?

President Jacob Zuma claims that 34% of households had access to electricity in 1994. Available data suggests he is wrong. By 1994 it was about 50%.

  • Kate Wilkinson
5 min read
International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a picture of what it means to be a migrant trying to make a living in the country.
FOREIGN NATIONALS

ANALYSIS: Are foreign nationals stealing jobs in South Africa?

International migrants are often accused of stealing jobs from locals in South Africa. But new data presents a far more nuanced picture.

  • Kate Wilkinson
5 min read
We would still have crime, unemployment, a drug problem and poor delivery of basic services because political elites, not migrants, are to blame for SA’s ills
2011 CENSUS

Are there 70-million people in South Africa?

The last census estimated that there were 52-million people in SA. Recent reports cited claims by an academic that 20-million people weren’t counted.

  • Kate Wilkinson
5 min read
DA leader Helen Zille reckons President Jacob Zuma has set back the fight against HIV and Aids more than former president Thabo Mbeki.
AFRICA CHECK

Has Jacob Zuma hurt the fight against Aids more than Thabo Mbeki?

Has President Jacob Zuma set back the fight against HIV and Aids more than his predecessor? Helen Zille believes so but the evidence shows otherwise.

  • Kate Wilkinson
9 min read
The DA holds the Western Cape.
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

Does the DA really deliver?

Non-partisan website Africa Check has assessed the Democratic Alliance’s various Twitter claims for factual accuracy ahead of the general election.

  • Kate Wilkinson
11 min read