Most of the text messages, videos and pictures circulated to intimidate foreign nationals are fake or old, according to national South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson, Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo.
“Ninety-nine percent of them are either old or they are fake, or they are not from this country,” he told News24.
He mentioned a video on social media of a man who was burnt alive, saying that happened in January this year”.
The video in question is of a man who was set alight in a mob justice attack in Hillbrow after being accused of stealing a handbag, News24 reported.
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Source: news24
