SABC News media bias and reliability
SABC News is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 34 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is SABC News biased?
SABC News is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is SABC News left or right?
SABC News is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is SABC News reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for SABC News. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What SABC News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with SABC News’s own report linked underneath.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
The United States has imposed new visa restrictions on certain South African nationals, citing race-based discrimination and uncompensated land seizures. South Africa has rejected the US allegations, stating the measures are based on mischaracterised policies and fringe group information.
Saudi Arabia has shut its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline following drone attacks launched from Iraq. The closure removes a key route for oil exports, potentially impacting four percent of global supply and driving up crude prices.
An Izmir court ordered the pre-trial detention of 16 people as part of the 'My Family Is Safe' operation. The operation, coordinated by the Izmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, targeted LGBT individuals and organisations, with reports of differing arrest numbers nationwide.
The BRICS New Delhi Declaration condemned the April 22, 2025, terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The statement called for zero tolerance towards state-sponsored cross-border terrorism and reaffirmed the commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
SABC News reported it asAmerica reflects 25 years after 9/11 - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader. (opens SABC News in a new tab)
Algeria has announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates and the closure of its airspace to UAE-registered civilian and military aircraft. Commercial flights will be exempt until 2026. The UAE expressed hope the decision is temporary.
SABC News reported it asAlgeria cuts diplomatic ties with the UAE - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader. (opens SABC News in a new tab)
A fire at a school in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, killed at least 17 people, including children. Over 50 students were hospitalised, with some later dying from injuries. The cause of the fire remains unknown. Bukavu is controlled by the Rwanda-backed AFC/M23 rebels.
Russia resumed drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, after a three-day pause. The strikes killed at least four people and injured 83 across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said its Active Operations Department struck a Russian Su‑24 in temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of 7 September. Video shows tail number 49; the extent of damage is still being evaluated.
The Anak Krakatau volcano erupted on September 4-5, 2026, with an ash column observed by satellite. Loud booms were heard up to 150km away, and Indonesian authorities placed the volcano under Alert Level III, prohibiting access within a 3km radius.
Eight Indonesian airports, including Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta and Halim Perdanakusuma, were closed on 7 September due to ash from the Mount Anak Krakatau eruption. The transport ministry reported 170,000 people were affected by flight cancellations.
World food prices reached their highest point since late 2022 in August, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. The FAO Food Price Index rose to 133.3 points, with sugar prices seeing the largest increase.
A US strike in southern Iran hit a wedding celebration, killing at least four people, including a child, and wounding over 50, according to the Iranian Red Crescent. US Central Command confirmed strikes on IRGC targets.
Russia launched a large aerial assault on Ukraine's Kyiv and Odesa regions using missiles and drones. At least 11 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded, including children. Ukrainian forces reported destroying most of the incoming aerial targets.
Nepal and China officials met in May to discuss cooperation on floods and glacier hazards. Two Nepali officials later told Reuters they did not receive sufficient information from China on risks, potentially hindering disaster preparedness.
King Harald's coffin was transported from the National Hospital to the Royal Palace in Oslo on Friday evening. Thousands of people lined the streets to witness the procession, which was accompanied by the royal family. The coffin will remain at the palace until the funeral.
The Trump administration is intensifying its immigration crackdown by pausing all immigrant visa applications and preparing to revoke up to 200,000 business and tourism visas. These measures target individuals seeking to enter or remain in the U.S. legally, citing concerns about public charge.
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed SABC News. We asked on 6 September 2026.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for SABC News.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
- Official site
- sabcnews.com
- Seen publishing on
- sabcnews.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 34
- Reports listed
- 34
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
34 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. SABC News has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 34 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of SABC News: its report arrived a median of 33 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.