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So both Fanie Fondse and Tokyo Sexwale were acting for Spiritual White Boy Trust. According to his letter from Aug 2018, filed as part of his affidavit in Feb 2020,

The Nigerian army dismissed local and international publications reporting on the #LekkiMassacre as "fake news".My investigation for @DFRLab looked at the open source evidence placing the Nigerian army in the

While uLerato_pillay raised valid issues re corruption, high crime and unemployment rates (which affect the poor disproportionately), he also blamed foreigners (legal or not) for these ills. And he did

In my latest for @DFRLab the man behind the xenophobic @ulerato_pillay Twitter account is revealed as a 32 year old former SANDF member: Sifiso Jeffrey Gwala.Gwala used the account to

A quick thread on "Black Twitter" 's most recently elected President, the parody @MrHandsome_ZA.A few days ago, @Natz_online pointed out a blatantly fake account to me, pretending to be a

Yesterday a screengrab did the rounds attributing a statement to the Dep. Min. of Transport.This is not only fake news...but old fake news.The website that originally posted the article, run

The Twitter account @uLerato_Pillay hides its afrophobia behind a thin veneer of nationalism.In an earlier investigation for @DFRLab, @wildknight and I traced the origins of the account to pin a

No, he got a watered down version of the real thing.Kind of like when you're expecting a Zapiro cartoon but find a Kak&Kerm cartoon instead. "Did you know there is

I'd take the panic a bit more serious if he didn't also screech AUTHORITARIAN AT THE GATES earlier today when he stumbled across...guidelines for Whatsapp group chats.No surprise, he retweets

Seen a lot of #SANDF disinformation lately? I did too. My @DFRLab investigation found several South African Twitter accounts were punting disinformation around the deployment of the SANDF in support