Doing the Social Media rounds is the article below by Loyiso Sidimba and Siviwe Feketha
You will see that the date is NOT visible.
FYI: All news articles ALWAYS have a date – printed or online, so there is the first warning that some fake news could be crossing your desk.
As a matter of fact the article was first published in the Mercury Newspaper on 10 January 2018 so has ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING on current events in South Africa.
The ‘resurrection’ of this article is mischievous in that it allows the reader to THINK that the article refers to the recent infighting among party and government officials around the banning of substances during Level 4 if the Lockdown in contravention of what the President promised South Africans.
The article says that the ANC Party’s officials did what Africans do in the face of misfortune which is for them to go back to their ancestors and talk to them.
The article also quotes Ramaphosa as saying that they visited founding ANC leader, Walter Benson Rubusana’s grave in East London to; “…ask for a way forward.”
The normal platitudes about a unified ANC and a party that serves the nation are also covered.
BUT – the timing of the sharing of this article is mischievous and wrong so please bin it with the contempt that it deserves.
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