A post shared hundreds of times on Facebook in South Africa claims that schools in the country will be closed after politician Julius Malema won a court case forcing the government to shutter classrooms due to a surge in Covid-19 infections.
But this is false: the South African education department refuted the claim that schools have been ordered shut, and a spokeswoman for Malema’s party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), said that neither he nor his party had filed any such lawsuit.
The post was published here on Facebook on June 13, 2021, and has since been shared over 3,800 times. It reads: “julius malema won the case and it’s confirmed the schools are closing (sic).”
On June 10, 2021, South Africa officially entered its third wave of Covid-19 infections after recording 9,149 new cases in a 24-hour period, according to figures released by the country’s National Institute for
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