Police to probe fake news reports that gay initiate raped and killed

The instigator behind false allegations on social media that a gay initiate was raped and killed, will now be investigated, after the Phila Ndoda movement, together with representatives of the LGBTQI+ community, opened a criminal case of defamation.

The rumours made the rounds on Facebook  groups and Twitter claiming that an initiate was abducted from his hut at KwaMagxaki by a group of men and taken to bushes near Motherwell where he was allegedly raped and found dead at the weekend. ..

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