Tendai Dube

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

During talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington on May 21, 2025, Donald Trump screened a video meant to support unfounded claims of the "persecution" of white farmers. This included aerial footage showing white crosses lining a road filled with a convoy of vehicles. "These are burial sites," Trump said. However, the highway is not flanked by graves.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Washington on May 19, 2025, for a highly anticipated bilateral visit with his American counterpart, Donald Trump. Social media users have circulated a video claiming it shows “a summary” of their official meeting. This is false; the footage depicts Trump and South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe in 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Banks in South Africa are compelled to report large cash transactions, but posts claiming authorities have imposed new, more onerous withdrawal limits that require mandatory flagging are false. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) denied overhauling existing regulations and refuted the claim. AFP Fact Check traced the hoax to an obscure blog registered in Iceland. “The war on cash,” begins a Facebook post published on May 5, 2025.

1 month ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Tendai DUBE / AFP Sudáfrica / AFP México2 de mayo de 2025, 5:52 p.m.·3  min de lecturaEl papa Francisco falleció el 21 de abril de 2025 y cinco días después se realizó su funeral ante la presencia de mandatarios mundiales y miembros de la Iglesia católica. En ese contexto, usuarios en redes sociales difunden casi 10.000 veces un video de una procesión de personas que portan sombreros negros puntiagudos, con la afirmación de que corresponde a las exequias “satánicas” del pontífice. Pero es falso.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Days before the late Pope Francis was buried, social media users circulated a video of people in hooded cloaks at a religious ceremony in Spain, falsely claiming it showed the pontiff’s "satanic" funeral. Although undated, the footage -- shared thousands of times -- was filmed in the port city of Cartagena in southeast Spain during a Holy Week procession. “The Pope LOOKS LIKE he is literally having a SATANIC Ritual as a funeral,” read the caption on a Facebook video published on April 22, 2025.