A 55-year-old man was arrested on Monday for a Facebook video claiming SA’s test kits for the coronavirus were contaminated.
According to DispatchLive, the Cape Town man will appear in court today.
The report indicated that the man was charged under a regulation of the Disaster Management Act, in relation to “publishing any statement through any medium including social media with the intention to deceive any other person about measures by the government to address Covid-19.”
The penalty could be a fine or up to six months imprisonment. The regulation was published on March 18, making fake news and disinformation about Covid-19 a criminal offence in South Africa.
