{"id":215069,"date":"2025-11-27T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-beware-deepfake-video-of-south-africas-anti-migrant-group-leader-saying-her-parents-are-zimbabwean\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T19:30:50","slug":"africa-beware-deepfake-video-of-south-africas-anti-migrant-group-leader-saying-her-parents-are-zimbabwean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-beware-deepfake-video-of-south-africas-anti-migrant-group-leader-saying-her-parents-are-zimbabwean\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Beware Deepfake &#8211; Video of South Africa&#8217;s Anti-Migrant Group Leader Saying Her Parents Are Zimbabwean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> A video which appears to show Zandile Dabula, leader of South African anti-migrant group Operation Dudula, saying her parents are from Zimbabwe, has been circulating online. However, the video is just a convincing fake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Operation Dudula is a controversial South African anti-migrant group and associated <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/home\/channelafrica\/news\/details?id=d78d9605-2849-4d49-8af3-0b1b7c63db76&amp;title=SA%20organisation%20Operation%20Dudula%20registers%20as%20political%20party,%20targets%202026%20municipal%20elections\" rel=\"noopener\">political party<\/a>. It <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/is-operation-dudula-fighting-for-south-africans-or-fueling-hate\/video-74136069\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/south-africa-operation-dudula-hunts-down-illegal-migrants\/a-74199726\" rel=\"noopener\">oppose undocumented migration to South Africa<\/a>, but has indiscriminately targeted and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/operation-dudulas-victims-demand-justice\/\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked<\/a> all migrants, particularly from other African countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Members&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511270414.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: A video which appears to show Zandile Dabula, leader of South African anti-migrant group Operation Dudula, saying her parents are from Zimbabwe, has been circulating online. However, the video is just a convincing fake. Operation Dudula is a controversial South African anti-migrant group and associated political party. It claims to oppose undocumented migration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6287,42045,25546,52972,5192,7079,257,9998,5069,254,8066,421,325],"class_list":["post-215069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-antimigrant","tag-beware","tag-deepfake","tag-group","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-video","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}