The Lesotho chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa defends and promotes media freedom, freedom of expression and access to information in Lesotho.
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ALTERED: Digitally manipulated video falsely shows South African woman physically assaulting a foreign shop owner
Nicole Tau A video (archived here) shared on Facebook claims to show a South African woman physically assaulting the owner of a foreign-run spaza shop, an informal township grocery store, during an argument over business licenses and regulatory compliance. In the...
FALSE: School closure in Eastern Cape isn’t due to deportation of foreign nationals
Nicole Tau A video on Facebook with a caption claiming that schools in South Africa's Eastern Cape are closing because foreign nationals are being deported is false. The video, which is seemingly from legitimate news footage, carried the text: “Eastern Cape Schools...
Who Gets to Call It “News”? The Fight for Real Journalism in Lesotho
Nicole Tau Every journalist eventually has to accept a basic truth: people enter this field for vastly different reasons. Some are driven by a noble duty to inform, while others are motivated by influence, sensation, or profit. That is simply human nature. But what...
FALSE: Lesotho’s 2026 Census Results Have Not Yet Been Released
The circulating figures are unverified, demographically inaccurate, and do not originate from official data. Nicole Tau A viral Facebook post claiming that Lesotho’s 2026 Population and Housing Census recorded a population of 2.1 million people, including 600,000 men...
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