Kupelo said the sound of the fart was added to the clip in which the MEC was apologising for fluffing a word. The TV crew can attest to this, he said.
The Eastern Cape department of health has described two viral videos of MEC Sindiswa Gomba, including one in which she is alleged to have farted on camera, as the work of “bored and creative social media gurus”.
Social media users concluded that Gomba was apologising because most of the 20 Cuban doctors allocated to the province were of mixed race. One post of the video was viewed more than 2,000 times, attracted close to 100 comments and was shared 75 times. Kupelo said: “The Eastern Cape Health Department condemns with the contempt it deserves the mischievous and malicious video clip that has been circulating, portraying MEC Sindiswa Gomba as a racist. To then edit the clip to suit a certain narrative is malicious and is meant to present MEC as a racist which could not be further from the truth. Some bored and creative social media gurus manipulated the video to suit their misconstrued views.
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