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CLAIM: About 70 percent of Zimbabwean men are taking care or providing for children who were misidentified as theirs either deliberately or due to human error. CONCLUSION: False Explainer: The…
CLAIM: On June 25, the website The Tabloid Zim reported that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) had ordered an end to withdrawals from Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs). According to…
A claim that a parliamentary committee seeks to lower the age of consent to 12 years has triggered outrage. By ZimFact Staff CLAIM: On Wednesday, 6 March 2019, voter mobilisation…
CLAIM: Zimbabwe continues to import electricity from South Africa Source: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (September 2018) CONCLUSION: Explainer: Zimbabwe imports at least 50 MW of electricity from South Africa every day.…
CLAIM: Opposition officials, citing a report by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), say 21% of the nearly 11,000 polling stations used for the July 30 general election did not…
