Tendai Dube

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

“Zelensky ha comprado la mayor parte de las acciones de una compañía Sudáfrica que posee la mayor mina de platino del mundo, valorada en 1.600 millones $”, escribe un usuario en Facebook. La publicación muestra un video con los mismos gráficos que utiliza para sus informes la señal South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s state visit to South Africa in late April 2025, social media users are circulating a video – purportedly a news report by by the country's state broadcaster – claiming the Ukrainian leader acquired a controlling stake in the mining company Northam Platinum. However, the video is fabricated. South Africa’s state broadcaster called the video “fake”, while the mine’s owners also refuted the claim.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Social media users recently shared claims about a brutal attack on a female train driver, linking it to safety issues in South Africa’s railway sector. The posts included an image of a damaged train. However, the context is misleading: while the incident  involving the train driver did occur, it took place seven years ago, at a time when local media reported a wave of attacks on trains in Pretoria. The image also circulated in 2018 in connection with the unrest.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Tendai Dube

Dozens of people have been killed in US military airstrikes on Huthi-controlled areas of Yemen this year. Social media users are circulating a video of an explosion, claiming it shows the US barrage in Yemen. However, this is false; the footage shows an attack carried out in Yemen in 2015 by a Saudi-led coalition. “The US military continued to attack military targets of Huthi terrorists across Yemen tonight,” reads the Facebook post published on March 17, 2025.

1 month ago | brnw.ch | Tendai Dube

Anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa has been fuelled by an influx of economic migrants along with high unemployment and crime rates. Amid these tensions, a post circulating on X claims to show a new armoured vehicle the country's Border Management Authority (BMA) is supposedly using to patrol the border with Zimbabwe under a shoot-to-kill policy. However, this is false; both the government and the Belgian makers of the vehicle have denied the claim.