Namibia Fact Check

22/10/2025

Electoral authorities, the media and civil society are cautioned to be aware of and on the lookout for election-related mis- and disinformation and to attempt to counter such attacks in order to safeguard electoral integrity, which is built on information integrity, around the November 2025 local and regional elections.

With local and regional elections fast approaching in November 2025 we need to elevate awareness of digital mis- & disinformation

21/10/2025

When making statements or reporting about such sensitive issues as Namibia’s suicide rate, it should be noted that rankings may reflect outdated and unreliable figures from most other African countries. This could have the misleading effect of making countries with better reporting systems (such as Namibia or South Africa) appear worse simply because they collect more accurate data.

The false claim by the Prime Minister should have been checked by the media before repeating and amplifying it

21/10/2025

The Fishrot trial was supposed to have started in October 2023, exactly two years ago at this point, but the delays brought about by some of the accused in the case are what have been preventing the case from being heard and finalised.

Opposition politician Bernadus Swartbooi wrongly suggests that delays in the corruption proceedings are due to state tactics

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

18/03/2025

Because of the lack of visual evidence to date, we consider the claim that the Swapo Party presidential candidate and Namibian president-elect, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, had ‘collapsed’ on 26 October to be unproven.

Claims of the ruling party presidential candidate having collapsed at a party campaign event continued to swirl despite a lack of evidence

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