Claims, stories and information fact-checked for accuracy
An article purporting to be from NewsDay and headlined: “MDC Alliance is no longer part of my future: Welshman Ncube” has been circulating on WhatsApp. It is fake. The newspaper…
On 23 July 2021, the Associated Press tweeted what it called a “virus update”. One of the highlights read: “Canada has high vaccine rate; Zimbabwe lowest.” That same day, the…
Opposition MDC Alliance vice president and former finance minister Tendai Biti gave an online speech on corruption in Zimbabwe on July 18, 2021. Here, we check key claims from Biti’s…
CLAIM: Chinese, Russian and Indian COVID-19 vaccines registered for use in Zimbabwe have all been approved by the World Health Organisation and are part of the Covax scheme. Source: Presidential…
CLAIM: Diamonds worth US$140 million vanished or were stolen from the state-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), according to the latest Auditor General’s report. Sources: Various news and social media…
