Police have urged the public to verify information before sharing it online after a misleading video falsely linked a shooting incident to the June 30 anti-immigration protests in Mpumalanga.
Mpumalanga police have dismissed as false a video circulating on social media and some media platforms claiming that a Namibian truck driver was assaulted by a South African during the June 30 protests targeting undocumented immigrants.
Police said the video is fabricated and does not depict an incident linked to the recent protest action.
Mpumalanga police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said an investigation found that the incident shown in the video took place weeks before the protests and involved an unrelated altercation.
“The true version of the incident is that a Namibian National who is employed as a security guard was at a tavern in Hendrina, Mpumalanga, on the 6th of June 2026, having a service firearm.”
