15 August 2025 – The xenophobic movement has prevented migrants from entering health facilities. But the unconscious man in the photo, denied after-hours emergency care at a clinic, survived and is likely South African.
3 July 2024 – A Wikipedia edit changed Leon Schreiber’s nationality just 12 minutes after president Cyril Ramaphosa’s unity cabinet appointments were due to be announced. For the previous four years, the page had correctly put the new Home Affairs minister’s birthplace in South Africa.
20 June 2024 – A legal migrant from Zimbabwe was awarded R17 million in damages after a court found South Africa’s health department “100% responsible” for her child’s severe disability. She is not the woman in the photo, shot nowhere near South Africa.
17 June 2024 – South Africa has seen decades of xenophobic violence against people from elsewhere on the continent. But the video was shot in Haiti, and shows an attack on suspected members of powerful gangs.
11 June 2024 – The distressing video of two bloodied women being beaten up and sexually assaulted was shot on a road near Kampala. There’s no evidence that anyone involved was South African or Nigerian.
22 March 2024 – The US did lift sanctions against powerful people in Zimbabwe, only to impose “new sanction tools”. And Zidera, the law that sanctions the country itself, remains.
12 March 2024 – The “Nigerian drug dealer” is one of many harmful stereotypes of migrants in South Africa. But the video was shot in the West African country of Liberia.
20 February 2024 – There was no violence after South Africa lost to Nigeria in their Africa Cup of Nations football semifinal, despite a controversial Nigerian embassy warning. Photos used to claim otherwise are from 2019.
8 February 2024 – Xenophobic posts mislabel a photo of a local oddity from Georgia – a train carriage converted into a river bridge – to sustain a harmful stereotype of Zimbabwe.
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