{"id":1606,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"FAKE-NEWS:-Sindisiwe-Lydia-Chikunga-'Switch-off-Headlamps'-Quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"FAKE-NEWS: Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga &#8216;Switch off Headlamps&#8217; Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a circulating report, the South African Government&#8217;s Deputy Minister of Transport \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/about-government\/contact-directory\/transport-deputy-ministry\/sindisiwe-lydia-chikunga-ms\">Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga<\/a> has advised drivers that switching your car&#8217;s headlamps off when driving at night can save fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly \u00a0Chikunga uttered \u00a0the words while addressing a large crowd in Limpopo. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>But, of course, the claims are untrue. \u00a0Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga did not make such a statement. The <a href=\"https:\/\/newsupdatessa.site\/switching-your-cars-headlamps-off-when-driving-at-night-can-help-save-fuel-says-deputy-minister-of-transport-in-sa-lydia-sindiswe-chikunga\/\">false report<\/a> comes from a fake-news website called &#8220;News Updates South Africa&#8221;, which bills itself as &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s number 1 news satire website.<\/p>\n<p>And there are no credible news reports that support the claims made in the satirical \u00a0article.<\/p>\n<p>The report is obviously \u00a0not intended to be taken seriously \u00a0and is perhaps intended to highlight concerns in South Africa about rising petrol prices.<\/p>\n<p>It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/four-quick-ways-to-spot-fake-news-stories\/\">wise to verify any strange or unusual stories<\/a> that come your way before sharing them.<\/p>\n<h2>Example:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"example\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-news-sindisiwe-lydia-chikunga-switch-off-headlamps-quote\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1.jpg\" alt=\"Headlamps Off To Save Fuel Fake-News\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/headlamps-off-save-fuel-020818-1-585x437.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>nbs<\/p>\n<p>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-news-sindisiwe-lydia-chikunga-switch-off-headlamps-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-news-sindisiwe-lydia-chikunga-switch-off-headlamps-quote\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a circulating report, the South African Government&#8217;s Deputy Minister of Transport \u00a0Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga has advised drivers that switching your car&#8217;s headlamps off when driving at night can save fuel. Supposedly \u00a0Chikunga uttered \u00a0the words while addressing a large crowd in Limpopo. \u00a0 But, of course, the claims are untrue. \u00a0Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}