15 May 2024 – The lazy social media clickbait reuses the same wording, in Afrikaans, teasing “shocking” news about local celebrities – politician Julius Malema, cricketer AB de Villiers, actor Pearl Thusi and more.
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.
7 February 2024 – The myth of white genocide in South Africa continues to be sustained by false information. In this case, the Economic Freedom Fighters political party is blamed for an attack on a gay man on a different continent.
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