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A photo shared on Twitter by Dudu Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma, appears to show people blocking a freeway. They are lying on the ground, some in yellow shirts and camouflage army fatigues. The tweet , posted on 9 July 2021, reads: Durban City, We See You! Amandla!!! #FreeJacobZuma. It has been reshared nearly 1,000 times and attracted over 3,800 likes. Africa Check previously fact-checked a video shared by Zuma-Sambudla after South Africa’s constitutional court sentenced her father to 15 months in prison for contempt of court . The video, which showed people shooting into the air, was taken in Venezuela in South America in 2019. It did not show events at Nkandla, Zuma’s residence in KwaZulu-Natal province, in June 2021. Protests, looting and violence have been reported across Durban, a city in the eThekwini metropolitan municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. Some of the protesters appear to be demanding Zuma be released from jail. The photo has also been posted on Facebook , with the same claim that it shows these protests. But does the photo shared by Zuma-Sambudla show recent events? We checked. Video from unrelated protest in 2020 A Google reverse image search revealed that the image is from 2020. It was published in an Independent Online news story about a protest against corruption organised by the Congress of South African Trade Unions , a trade union federation. Using Twitter’s advanced search function we were able to search for tweets posted during September 2020 including the words N3 and Durban. This led us to a video filmed on 25 September. The same section of the freeway, people in army fatigues and yellow shirts can be seen. The photo posted by Zuma-Sambudla was shot in Durban but it is from 2020. It shows events unrelated to protests in July 2021.
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