Is this a real Kwayedza front page? No, it's a fabrication - ZimFact
Ngoni Mhuruyengwe
January 17, 2022
Is this a real Kwayedza front page?
No, this is a fake meant to look like the real paper.
The image circulated after Zimbabwe’s national football team, the Warriors, lost to Malawi at the African Cup of Nations.
Translated, the headline in Shona said: “The Warriors thrashed by nyau dancers at Afcon”.
One social media user, taking it as fact, complained that the paper had run a headline that was offensive to Malawians. But, no, Kwayedza never ran such a headline.
“This is not the real Kwayedza that you know, but the creation of those that would tarnish its image or pretend to be the people’s paper. They may try, but can never reach our level,” the Editor of the paper says.
What are the tell-tale signs that this is a misleading post?
The editor picked out a few. For example, Kwayedza does not use the English word ‘January’, but uses the Shona word for the month, “Ndira”. The editor also pointed out the wrong spellings on the fabricated headline, such as “zvinyawe” and “Afukoni”.
The font on the headlines is also different from what the real Kwayedza uses.
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