This video examines how the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) in South Africa used AI-generated images of fake schools to create false impressions of their political achievements, and how voters who have been failed by decades of broken promises became susceptible to believing these fabricated accomplishments, revealing how accumulated political disappointment can make communities vulnerable to misinformation.
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EFF Using AI PROPAGANDA | Mantashe Wants To STEAL MORE Money | Pharmacist MURDER SHOCKS SAAdded:
The EFF, a party that's been spending 13 years telling South Africa and my fellow black South Africans that they're the party of the black people, the ones that wear overalls to parliament. They talk about being the party that's about economic freedom. Well, guess what? Now they're generating AI images of red schools they have never built in communities they have never served and posting them on social media for voters to admire and congratulate them for. And as dumb as this sounds, some people believe it. Fake schools, AI generated red roofs, EFF flags, beautiful manicured gardens. The sign says EFF Unity School. And people actual South Africans believe it are they are congratulating the EFF in the comments for building these schools.
Schools that do not exist. Schools that have never been built ever. Schools that were created in approximately 4 seconds because somebody decided to download an AI app and then type in a prompt for everybody to look at. And then there's still people dumb enough to actually believe it. Seriously, because it's pixels, not bricks. That's why it took 4 seconds. That's the EFF election strategy, right? Fake accomplishments for more votes. And while the EFF is busy generating imaginary schools, you've got Guantanas who is in parliament announcing that South Africa needs a new state-owned company to handle the fuel crisis, right? Because the ANC cares for us so much. a new SOE in a country where Escom exists, where South African Airways exists, where Denell exists, some of you have never even heard of Denell, where the post office barely exists, where state-owned enterprises have completely destroyed hundreds of billions in value, and required hundreds of billions in bailouts, some still not working after that money was raised. Now, he wants a new company for us to suffer on for oil.
And then there's Numzilla Matinani, a young pharmacist who studied, she qualified, she worked hard and she was looking after her community in Guangwa near Hill Crest in Guazulu Nadel Kesn.
This was a rural community with limited access to healthcare. So she decided to give back to the community that raised her, open a pharmacy there, not in a mall in Santon, not somewhere profitable and safe and comfortable. She said, "I'm going to go to one of my communities for my people, the Nomi Pharmacy. That's what I'm going to call it." She opened it less than a week before she was murdered. Less than a week. Now, before we get into all of it, I just wanted to say welcome back to the show. My name is the Summer Sambit. If you appreciate this channel and what I do, consider liking, sharing, and subscribing to continue the movement. And if you'd like to donate to continue the movement of free speech, you can just buy me a coffee. Links in the description below.
Let's go. All right. I just want to start with the EFF using AI to generate fake schools and then they have their actual voters congratulating them for it. I just I just need a moment for that. I I need a genuine moment for that. Like I need to set the scene because it's almost election season in South Africa. So every party is trying to get momentum. Local government elections are months away. Every political party is in full campaign mode. Okay? We got door-to-door visits.
We've got rallies. We've got posters on every lamp post. Promises that will be forgotten before the ink dries on the ballot papers. This is that season. It's that time of maximum political creativity and minimum accountability.
Remember Helen Zilla swimming in the potholes. It's that time. and the EFF, the party whose leader is awaiting an impeachment committee appearance, whose tender connections are documented at the Mahjanga Commission, the strangest thing ever, whose name appears over and over again in a 2.9 billion rand WhatsApp message as CIC Guju now has found a new campaign tool. allegedly his party is now doing artificial intelligence image generation. Either his party or somebody who's trying to take him out. You've got EFF supporters and this is documented on WhatsApp, on X, on Facebook. It's circulating right now today. Look it up. You'll find it.
I'm going to share one with you, too.
They are sharing images of what they call EFF schools. So, you've got these stunning red AI buildings, EFF flags flying from flag poles, signs reading EFF Unity School, green pass, paved driveways, two-story red brick buildings that look like they belong in a European city, not in the South African townships the EFF claims to represent. You know what I mean? And then I know there's going to be some nipwit in the comment section saying, "But how do we know you didn't make it, Summer?" Do I have the time to give the EFF some credit? Look at my channel for evidence. And in the comments, congratulations.
South Africans are congratulating the EFF for building these beautiful schools, schools that don't exist.
You've got proud messages. If you look on X or Twitter, if you look on Facebook, you'll see EFF members congratulating it. They're like, "This is what real service delivery looks like. The EFF is building our future.
Thank you, CIC." But I need to be clear about one thing before I continue because again I am always clear and fair. These schools the EFF is being praised for do not exist. There is no EFF unity school in South Africa. It's all AI. The EFF does not run schools.
The EFF has never built a school in their life. They can't build a school to save their life. The EFF does not have the executive authority to build schools. They are in opposition at national level and governing coalition at very limited municipal level because they got less than 10% in the last elections. The images were all generated by AI. It's not legit photographs. They are digital creations made by someone who typed EFF red school building or similar to that into one of the many many free available AI image tools and then received a convincing looking output in seconds. Now, the person who posted the original image, whoever it was, should know better. Okay? If you're watching this, you should know better, sir or ma'am or them if you identify as part of the LGBTQIA plus XYZ garbage.
Using AI generated content to imply accomplishments that never happened, especially during an election campaign, is not just irresponsible. It is electoral misinformation. It is the digital equivalent of publishing a fake newspaper headline about things your political party has achieved and then distributing it in the townships. That's literally the equivalent. But here is what I want to talk about more than the image itself because the image is almost a slideshow.
What I want to talk about is the voters who congratulated the EFF for these AI schools.
Because if these are not bots, then these voters, the people in the comment section typing, "Well done, EFF, they are not stupid. They are not gullible in any fundamental sense. These are South Africans who have been failed by every promise from every direction for 30 years. They are people who live in communities where actual school buildings are crumbling. Where you've got 50 kids in one classroom with one teacher. The teachers lack textbooks.
They are overworked and underpaid. Where the children, some of them have to sit on floors because there's just there's not enough desks. Deal with it, kids.
where the nearest functioning clinic is like an hour's taxi drive away, where the electricity goes off in the middle of exams. Those people saw a beautiful red building with a green lawn and an EFF flag, and then they felt something, not because they believed it uncritically, but because they wanted it to be real.
Get what I mean? because a part of them needed a reason to believe that somebody, anybody was building something for them. That is the thing that should break your heart about the story. Not that the EFF generated fake schools.
Like that's not something to be angry about. And when I say EFF, I don't mean the executive EFF members, right? I'm not accusing the top EFF officials of doing this. Obviously, there's a supporter, an EFF supporter or someone against the EFF who did this for people to believe. But the victims of that correctly identify that their supporters and them as supporters are so desperate of evidence of someone caring about them that a convincing AI image could produce genuine gratitude. Right? That's what 30 years of accumulated disappointment speaking through a comment section does to you.
So the EFF's response to being exposed for the AI images, well, it's the same as always. Their supporters called the people who pointed it out liars, right? Agents of white monopoly capital propagandists. the same playbook that has been used every single time someone presents documented evidence of EFF dishonesty. It's funny because this is not even top EFF levels. These are just locals fighting each other. There's someone out there who made this fake thing and now they're fighting amongst each other because someone is saying, "Why'd you make that fake thing?" The other person is saying, "It's not fake.
It's real. It's real to us." But here's what nobody in the EFF support base seems willing to ask. If the EFF has been in parliament since 2014, like over a decade now, in various coalition governments, in municipalities, with funding, with influence, with a national platform that reaches millions of South Africans, why on earth does it need AI to show voters what it has built? How desperate have you become? Where are the real schools? Where is the real land redistribution?
Where are the real jobs?
Where is the real economic freedom?
A party that had to use artificial intelligence to show its supporters imaginary schools because it has no real schools to show them is not a liberation movement.
It's just liberation cosplay. I mean, you need to snap out of it.
I I ran into this post. I ran into this post on X and I'm like there's no way this is trending EFF schools and then people were arguing amongst each other. Yeah, they're doing that because they have no intelligence whatsoever. And then the other guys are saying no, we're doing this because we want to show you what's going to happen when we do win the elections. And then the other people are saying no, they it does exist. That school is real. So, I hate to agree with random people on the internet this comprehensively, but here we are.
Most of these supporters have no intelligence whatsoever. It's not an insult. They decide, they chose for that to happen. They chose to have no intelligence. And the saddest part of all this, the election is months away.
And some of the people who congratulated the EFF for their fake schools are actually going to vote for them because the fake school was more responsive to their pain than anything the real parties have offered. That is the state of South African democracy in May 2026.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached AI propaganda and fake buildings as a legitimate electoral tool. And the people are actually saying thank you.
That's what shocks me most. They No, it's not. What didn't shock me is that there's an EFF member out there who made that image or an EFF hater who made that image. The internet is the internet.
What shocks me is that, and the reason why I ended up making a video about this is because there's people who actually believe it.
What also shocks me is that Mantache genuinely believes that a state-owned oil company will help South Africa. We already have Escom. I rest my case on this man. I need to say the two sentences that tell you everything about the story before we decide to go any further.
South Africa has Escom.
Guantas wants a new state-owned company.
If those two sentences do not immediately produce in you a physical reaction, a tightening in the chest, a sudden need to sit down, a deep and existential fatigue, then you have not been paying attention to South Africa's SE track record. And that's okay. You have a right. So, I'm going to remind you. ESCON, the state-owned electricity utility built to provide affordable, reliable power in South Africa, now requires annual government bailouts in the hundreds of billions. Hundreds of billions of rands are being swept under your nose for ESCOM. It's given us 12 years of load sharing and still nothing has happened. It's accumulated over 400 billion rand in debt. has seen its leadership rotate through so many CEOs and acting CEOs and suspended CEOs that keeping count genuinely requires a spreadsheet on your computer. That escom is finally showing some stability, but only after absorbing more public money than most countries spend their entire than most countries spend on their entire health budgets, which is crazy.
And then you've got South African Airways, the state-owned airline, grounded, bailed out, relaunched. then bailed out again in business rescue. Out of business rescue. Now it's currently operating in a reduced form after costing the taxpayer billions that could have built the real schools. The EFF seemingly is now faking with AI allegedly. Then you've got Denell, the stateowned defense manufacturer. Once a worldclass arms company, now it's so dysfunctional that it cannot pay its workers. It cannot maintain its equipment and has had its facilities literally stripped by thieves. That's why you've never heard of it. The South African Army is operating with vehicles it cannot repair because Denell cannot supply the parts. You got to be kidding me. I mean, you got to be kidding me.
And then you've got the post office liquidated gone. Post office. Who uses the post office now? Transnet currently fighting to stay alive while its infrastructure, the ports, the railways sits in a state of degraded disaster that is costing the South African economy an estimated one billion rand per day in logistics inefficiency.
This this is the S SEE stateowned company's track record that Guantas is proposing to replicate in oil. His reasoning is not irrational on its surface. The straight of Hormuz is effectively closed because Iran keeps beefing with America. The war between the United States, the country with the blue and white flag and Iran erupted on the 28th of February 2026. Petrol prices have increased by 6 rand 29 cents per liter. Diesel by around 12 rand 60 cents per liter. over the past two months only. As a result, South Africa relies on imports for approximately like 61% of its petroleum products up like up from 22% from 4 years ago following the closure of the SAP refinery in Durban and the scaling down of Natref in Casselberg and then domestic refining capacity now covers only 40% of national fuel requirements. So when guantashi says uh petroleum security is not a theoretical debate but an economic necessity and a national imperative. He's factually correct. South Africa is structurally exposed. The numbers do prove it. The 6 rand 29 cents per liter petrol price is hitting every single South African at every petrol station right now. and you know it. So, the crisis is real, the exposure is real, the need for a strategic response is real. The proposed solution, a new state-owned entity, the South African National Petroleum Company, is where I get off the bus because here is the question that absolutely nobody asked loudly enough during Gu Mantas's budget vote speech. Not. Should South Africa have an oil strategy? Yes, it should.
But is a new SE the right vehicle for that strategy given the track record of S SOE we've had in this country. I will let you decide. I mean, I must because you've got Mache talking about it like a maniac here as if this is a good thing for us.
I request you also listen to the story with the remaining time I have for today.
This is the story of a young pharmacist.
She opened the Nomui pharmacy in Guangyusa near Hillrest in Guazulu Nadal, a rural community. So this is a place where healthcare access is limited. A place where the nearest pharmacy might be far away for people without cars, you know, poor communities.
She chose that place not because it was the most profitable location, not because Hillrest demographics guaranteed strong foot traffic and high margin retail, but because her community needed her there. And then unknown gunman walked in one day and then Numzilla was shot, her cashier was shot, the security guard was shot. By Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, all three of them were dead. Less than a week after she opened. What was happening there? Who told who about her pharmacy? Who was jealous? What happened? She opened the pharmacy. She qualified. She did the paperwork, the licensing, the stock procurements, the staff hiring. She was helping the community. She probably lay awake some nights thinking about whether the business would actually survive in such a community. She made a choice that required courage and sacrifice. And then this is what she gets for it. Because I'm running out of time, I'm just going to leave it to you like this. Y'all want to talk all day about youth empowerment.
Start your own thing. Do your own thing.
She was empowering herself. Started her own thing. Doing her own thing. And then gunmen walked in and shot her down. You still want to do your own thing in such an unsafe country? I'll let you answer the question. So, who's really stopping who from thriving here? Is the government actually doing its job when it comes to safety? I'll let you answer that for me. But we're out of time. I'll see you all next time.
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