South Africa Drags Woman After She Posts Pic as General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s Wife

South Africa Drags Woman After She Posts Pic as General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s Wife

  • Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi's presence at the Madlanga Commission has caused a stir on social media
  • The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Police Commissioner has been trending amid his testimony about political interference in SAPS investigations
  • South Africans heralded Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as a super cop, and one lady with a crush on him got carried away

General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi gained South Africa's favour after exposing corruption. The KZN Police commissioner's appearance at the Madlanga Commission refreshed Mzansi's interest in him.

Woman convinced people she was General Mkhwanazi's wife
A South African woman convinced people she was General Mkhwanazi's wife and many were not impressed. Image: Frennie Shivambu
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A post of a woman who made some people think she's General Mkhwanazi's wife amassed more than 2,000 likes. Netizens were enraged by the photo of the KZN Police Commissioner, manipulated to look like he was close to a woman

X personality @joy_zelda shared a photo that made General Mkhwanazi seem like he has a wife. The X user captioned the photo: "General Mkhwanazi and his beautiful wife." The lady who originally posted the photo @asanda_teedow apologised for her misuse of AI to present herself as the KZN Police Commissioner's wife. She took part in a trend where people edit themselves to look like they are with their celebrity crushes. The woman wrote:

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"Lastly, it's a literal trend everybody is doing on TikTok. Just make sure you understand the nature of the context before commenting because uzovele ukhulume bese kanti kway wena uyaqina."
General Mkhwanazi earned women's favour
General Mkhwanazi earned favour among South African women. Image: Darren Stewart
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SA drags lady over General Mkhwanazi wife pic

Online users were not impressed by the lady who pretended to be General Mkhwanazi's wife. South Africans let the woman know that she may have put her life in danger with the AI stunt. See the photo that caused havoc below:

@abuti_fhatu commented:

"But what were you thinking?! Imagine bad people coming after you thinking you're the real wife. You'll die for nonsense ausi."

@Lwazkazi

Awoyiki kufa? Yho isbind'onaso sana. (You are not scared of death? You have guts.)"

@Jessca_01 wondered:

"Does Mkhwanazi know this is his wife? 😅😏"

@PriinceySA said:

"You knew exactly what you were doing. You know your apology will do very little to correct the damage. Continue."

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@papriksie was puzzled:

"Kanti what kind of homes do ya'll come from? 😂😂 honestly."

@AyandaMbatha4 said:

"This lady sent an apology for this image trying to tarnish Mkhwanazi's image. It's AI and the lady was claiming it was real."

@Wekhantri was unimpressed:

Why are you guys fixated on showing us Mkhwanazis wife? This is insidious."

@AfricanLionZA added:

"Right thing to do. The timing of the post unfortunately was not right. At this point, they will try to dig dirt on the General and could use what you posted against him even though it's fake. Also you wouldn't want the KZN Task Team to be knocking on your door🤣"

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Rutendo Masasi (Weekend Entertainment and Human Interest editor) Rue Masasi is a Human Interest and Entertainment writer at Briefly News who graduated with a BA (Hons) in English from Rhodes University in 2018. Rue also has 3 years of experience in journalism and over four years of experience as an online ESL teacher. She has also passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her via email: rutendo.masasi@briefly.co.za