Fact Check: Is SA’s new Home Affairs minister Zimbabwean?

If a person is a citizen of South Africa, they are South African. Period. No-one has the right to say they are not.

Mehmet Vefa Dag, whoever he is, is a toxic source of disinformation, hate speech and racist bile. Welcome to the cesspool of social media. Unfortunately, however, the stuff that he publishes, seemingly with impunity, has an impact (and it is all deeply negative).

To help quell disinformation, the headline should clearly state the finding (“Fact check finding: SA’s new Home Affairs minister is NOT Zimbabwean. Read on”) rather than basically repeating the original allegation except as a question. All the current headline achieves is to give credence to the allegation, act as click bait, and not settle anything for those who don’t decide to read the article.

Oh the irony, a Turkish immigrant to South Africa using Wikipedia as a Source of information to punt BS. He clearly either a) Doesnt know that Wikipedia is a community editable source of information so it cannot be taken as 100% fact or B)Did the edit himself before posting the tweet. What a pillock.

If he is naturalized he can be anything he wants!

It’s same the same old story. Mehmet’s followers, probably all disillusioned, disenfranchised people, prefer to buy into Mehmet’s narrative that their misery is caused by “those foreigners” instead of the plain truth which is that it is their fellow South Africans that have caused this: those in government (from the ministers down to the people that are supposed to be answering the phones at home affairs and the traffic department) and those not pulling their weight in society, refusing to work hard at school and in their workplace; and every eligible voter that just in these past elections didn’t vote, or voted for a party that will not make things better but only increase corruption and further erode what services, education, and infrastructure are left.

Fact check. Piketberg is in the Swartland area of the Western Cape, not the Northern Cape.

Rebecca, there's a problem here: "Schreiber, who is Afrikaans, has since confirmed that he was born in Piketberg in the Northern Cape". But Piketberg, as anyone who knows anything about the Cape knows, is in the Western Cape - in fact only 120km from Cape Town and a lot further from Zimbabwe than Kleinzee.

So what? This is trouble mongering Please focus on what should be fixed in the country and in Gauteng - especially now

I think these articles are invaluable - and I also like the way the titles draw one in. It is important we all read these and are not able to be fooled by the viral false narratives that are literally killing our world.

It's a pity the article didn't refer to Dag as Turkish-immigrant Dag' throughout, just to emphasize how ridiculous the poster is!

It is not so much as xenophobia but this unimaginative source of mental and belief masturbation providing as much confirmation bias porn of GNU and Ramaphosa failure as they can. This is the same account that in trying to malign Ian Cameron dragged the Ian Cameron who happens to be the father of the former British prime minister David Cameron. South Africa is the only country where the term xenophobia is used wantonly. And why is that? Because the self serving elites of African nationalism and laissez faire capitalism with their ivory tower academics and non governmental organisations have for different reasons sought to shut out the citizens for from immigration policy which should be determined by resources, manpower and economic needs. And these are the people who during apartheid were no better than foreigners in their own country Even the DA and it’s many supporters who despite their new found political kinship with the western right in the fight against “wokeism” and its support for GOP talking points hypocritically cannot support strict immigration policy in SA. So the poor who must compete for very limited resources with millions imported indigent persons were clubbed down with the accusation of being xenophobic leading to the self justification through prefixing of immigration concerns with accusations of vice.

Storm in a teacup. Irrespective of where one is born, once naturalised one is South African. I doubt very much where Schreiber would claim he is born in SA if he was born in Zim as that is very easily verifiable. And then, worst case scenario, is a SA naturalised foreign born disqualified from being elected/appointed as MP/ minister? If not then stop whining

Thank you Rebecca. This piece and Diana's piece on Dinokeng's festival, made me subscribe to DM. You all are doing a great job. Please keep us informed.

Judging by the photo accompanying this, it's a wonder that someone has not yet claimed that Schreiber is Eugene Terreblanche's illegitemate son.