Fake-talk and the Spaza Shop: A Fake Food Furore and the Spectre of Public Health Emergencies in South Africa
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa.Accusations of potentially poisonous ‘fake food’ had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes.Accusations fell at the door Air Filter of foreign-run spaza shops (convenience stores), some of whi