{"id":12868,"date":"2019-06-01T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2019-06-01T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T13:01:09","slug":"the-mec-of-fake-news-lesufi-tweet-spreading-fake-racist-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/the-mec-of-fake-news-lesufi-tweet-spreading-fake-racist-information\/","title":{"rendered":"The MEC of fake news: Lesufi tweet spreading fake racist information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Renaldo Gouws&#8221; wee see that after the recent re election of Panyaza Lesufi as the MEC for Education in Gauteng. He has made some outlandish claims with regards a person being accused of racism and then tweeting these false claims reaching his 1750000 followers. Lesufi will no doubt continue his eradication of mother-tongue education and Afrikaans in particular, tweeted a WhatsApp thread from a man named Shanel Singh, who allegedly wrote: \u201cMy stupid k****r staff are a bunch of monkeys. I\u2019m tired of trying to get things in order and these black k****rs keep f***ing up so much.\u201d Singh is an employee of Lindsay Saker in Kempton Park.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic evidence proved that Singh did not sent the WhatsApp message. An innocent man accused by a senior ANC government official causing untold damage to the man and his company. <\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lesufi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12869\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lesufi.jpg 596w, https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lesufi-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lesufi-244x420.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RgMeiBsgnN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/gauteng\/moving-lesufi-back-to-education-a-slap-in-the-face-of-minorities\/\">Moving Lesufi back to Education a slap in the face of minorities<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;Moving Lesufi back to Education a slap in the face of minorities&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/south-africa-news\/gauteng\/moving-lesufi-back-to-education-a-slap-in-the-face-of-minorities\/embed\/#?secret=RgMeiBsgnN\" data-secret=\"RgMeiBsgnN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Renaldo Gouws&#8221; wee see that after the recent re election of Panyaza Lesufi as the MEC for Education in Gauteng. He has made some outlandish claims with regards a person being accused of racism and then tweeting these false claims reaching his 1750000 followers. Lesufi will no doubt continue his eradication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[1290,8022,8027,323,939,8025,8026,8021,8023,8020,535,4561,8024],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-afrikaans","tag-false-claims","tag-forensic-evidence","tag-kempton-park","tag-kempton-park-news","tag-lindsay-saker","tag-lindsay-saker-kempton-park","tag-mec-for-education-in-gauteng","tag-mother-tongue-education","tag-panyaza-lesufi","tag-racism","tag-renaldo-gouws","tag-shanel-singh","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}