Namibia Fact Check

16/04/2025

IT'S A WRAP! ... Thanks to the student journalists, journalism graduates and working journalists who participated in our two-day training on 'Fact checking & verification for journalism students and recent graduates'. 🙏 also to trainers Rosevitha Ndumbu and Louivenzia Komases.

This training, from 15 - 16 April 2025, was made possible with grant funding from the BUILD 2024 fund of the International Fact-Checking Network.

Our two new trainers, Rosevitha and Louivenzia, handled most of the training and made us proud 👏👏👏. And participants were satisfied as well, with one stating in the evaluation form: "It was very informative and eye-opening knowledge that I needed".

09/04/2025

OPPORTUNITY ALERT! ... If you're a media / journalism student or recent graduate, this is for you. Please urgently indicate if you would like to participate, as space is limited!

27/03/2025

LAUNCHED! ... Yesterday the IPPR Namibia and Namibia Fact Check launched the findings of the Countering Mis- & Disinformation project, which sought to identify the narratives, actors and pathways of election-related mis- and disinformation ahead of last year's elections.

The report, bulletins and podcasts produced under this project will be uploaded to the IPPR Namibia and Namibia Fact Check websites and shared via the various social media pages over coming days.

We would like to thank the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) High Commission of Canada in South Africa for financially supporting the production of the outputs of this project 👏👏👏.

25/03/2025

LAUNCH! ... Please join us tomorrow if you can, whether in-person or online, for the launch of our report on mis- & disinformation around ?

High Commission of Canada in South Africa IPPR Namibia

18/03/2025

In the three months since the conclusion of Namibia’s presidential and parliamentary elections and the announcement of results, followed by court challenges to the results, no political party, politician, or social media user has come forward with credible evidence that the Zimbabwean ruling party had played a part in an alleged attempt to rig the Namibian elections of 2024.

Before and after the voting there were loud claims and accusations of Zimbabwe’s ruling party having influenced Namibia’s elections, but months later this still remains unproven

25/02/2025

PIVOTAL DISCUSSIONS – Namibia Fact Check editor & project coordinator Frederico Links spoke on two panels this morning at the 'Lessons from collaboration: Reflections on safeguarding information integrity during elections' conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference is hosted by Africa Check and brings together fact checkers that worked around elections across multiple countries on the continent ahead of, during and after elections in 2024.

Frederico Links first spoke on the panel titled 'Fact checking in action – Insights from the electoral period', and then on the panel 'The role of media & fact-checking collaboration in elections'.

28/01/2025

16/12/2024

The letter, which first appeared online in early October, made a resurgent appearance in social media spaces as suspicions and claims of election rigging became viral during and following the 27 – 30 November voting days ...

In the wake of the 27 November elections a fake letter that went viral before the elections has resurfaced

27/11/2024

We're half way through election day. Don't let your vote be rejected. If you haven't voted yet, you can still do it right ...

26/11/2024

... Just a few hours to go! Voting is really simple. Have your card ready to go and make the crosses for your choices.

26/11/2024

How accurate are the claims in the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) manifesto? Our partners Africa Check had a look at some of the claims and here's what they found? ...

The PDM has made its case for why voters should give them a chance come 27 November.

25/11/2024

FAKE NEWS ALERT! Disinformation actors are trying to undermine your trust in elections and to confuse you about what is true and important to you. Don't fall for it! ...

25/11/2024

BE ALERT! We're seeing a lot of smears being laundered as credible on social media and by some partial news media ...

22/11/2024

This was not the first time that Nandi-Ndaitwah had uttered the same figure and said that it was in the Swapo Party manifesto, for she made the same claim at a rally in the Zambezi Region a few weeks earlier ...

The ruling party presidential candidate has repeated the claim that the figure is in the manifesto at a rally in the north over the weekend

21/11/2024

From our partner Africa Check ...

Ahead of Namibia's general elections on 27 November, the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation released its manifesto.