About

For fact’s sake.

4FactSake is a searchable, cross-referenced public record of state failure and corruption in South Africa from 1994 to the present. Every claim is sourced. Every person is linked to the cases that name them. Every excuse is documented.

It is not an opinion platform. It is a forensic record: 291 cases and R5.4 trillion in documented exposure, with the evidence graded and the outcome of each case recorded as it stands.

How the record is kept

• 01File 01MethodologyHow cases are admitted, how evidence is graded, and how every rand figure is counted once and only once.
• 02File 02CorrectionsThe public log of what we got wrong and fixed. Tell us if something on the record is inaccurate.
• 03File 03For mediaResources for journalists and researchers: how to cite the archive, what is free to reuse, and who to contact.

Contact

Corrections, sources and press: hello@4factsake.info