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Mahlodi Muofhe | The learners of 1976 want challenges in education system to be resolved

Mahlodi Muofhe | The learners of 1976 want challenges in education system to be resolved
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Anti-vax: Lies, damned lies and Trumping the post-truth

In an article published by the Washington Post, it is alleged that Donald Trump made around 50 false or misleading statements per day during his term of office. In a 20 January update to their tally, the final total was 30,573 false or misleading claims made by Trump over his presidential term.  This astonishing volume of lies is indicative of the post-truth era in which we live. In this piece, I will explore the proliferation of conspiracy theories in South Africa during the coronavirus pandemic, with a particular focus on theories around vaccines. John Keane, writing for The Conversation, posits that post-truth politics is a politics in which an appeal is made not to the truth, but what may feel like the truth. This appeal may be as simple as a lie about minute details of an event which may have been forgotten by the majority, or it may be a grand narrative that is at odds with the truth, but has elements used to “attract and distract public attention and to interrupt the ba

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