22 July 2024 – John Hlophe, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party’s parliamentary leader, said state ownership of land in South Africa would be no different from England, where “all land belongs to the queen”. He’s wrong, and not just about the late queen.
26 April 2024 – Anti-migrant sentiment is a hot campaign issue, but the video only shows Mozambique’s electoral commission registering citizens living in South Africa to vote in their own upcoming elections.
9 April 2024 – When Cape Town’s Democratic Alliance government erected uncovered public toilets in 2009 it sparked outrage and a lawsuit. In 2024 a photo of one is being used for disinformation in the run-up to elections.
28 March 2024 – Former US president Donald Trump has not urged all South Africans to vote for the new political party in upcoming elections. The altered video was created with Parrot AI, a “celebrity voice generator”.
18 March 2024 – It’s an election year in South Africa, and most political parties campaign mainly on local issues. Just two could be said to “stand with Israel”.
5 March 2024 – A old online rumour that if a registered voter doesn’t turn up at the polls their vote “automatically” goes to the ruling ANC has resurfaced in another election year. But while a good voter turnout makes a better democracy, no democracy works that way.
14 February 2024 – It’s being used to claim that the new party is South Africa’s “biggest”, but the clip actually shows Fuerza del Pueblo supporters in the Dominican Republic.
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