South Africa’s history uncovered: the thousand-year gap they don’t teach in school
If we abandon 1652 – when Dutch settlers arrived at the Cape – as the historical starting point and go back a thousand years, a different story emerges.
Senegal’s new president Faye telling France to leave his country alone? No, old video of allied politician Sonko with English audio added
2 April 2024 – Bassirou Diomaye Faye has pledged to fight France’s “economic stranglehold” on Senegal. But the viral video of a man slamming the former colonial power been dubbed into English – and it shows Ousmane Sonko, not Faye.
Video of gunmen forcing kids to strip naked filmed in Cameroon, not Nigeria
1 April 2024 – The viral video appeared online after a spate of school kidnappings by militants in northern Nigeria. But it shows a different conflict, in Cameroon.
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam? No, photo of dam in India
22 March 2024 – Ethiopia’s massive hydroelectric dam could be Africa’s largest, although it’s sparked a row with Egypt over who owns the Nile. But the photo on social media shows the Tungabhadra Dam in southwestern India.
No, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu didn’t say he would ‘recolonise’ Africa after he ‘finished Palestine’
29 February 2024 – The TikTok clip completely makes up the quote, using an edited and out of context video of Benjamin Netanyahu giving a speech in Uganda in 2016.
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