The biggest fattest liars of 2015

There were some unbelievable lies told in 2015, we list six our our favourites.

1: AKA, DJ Zinhle and Bonang

DJ Zinhle accused Bonang of having an affair with the father of her child, AKA, for five months before the pair broke up. AKA claimed that this wasn't true - and later walked out of an interview when asked about the subject.

Somebody wasn't telling the truth.

2: Did Zuma consult his cabinet on Nene decision?

Did President Jacob Zuma consult his cabinet before deciding to replace  Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene?

Official spokesperson and ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said, "Were we consulted about the removal Nhlanhla Nene? Yes, we were. Were we consulted about the appointment of Des van Rooyen? Yes‚ we were."

Except The Presidency said, “There is no obligation on the part the president of the republic to inform or consult other members of cabinet or the national executive prior to making any new appointments or changes. The only people who are informed are those affected by the changes."

And Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said, “This is a post cabinet briefing and cabinet happened on Wednesday. At the conclusion of the cabinet meeting, there was no new finance minister and there was no way we could have predicted.”

3: The Donald ducks the truth

According to Politifact, an organisation which fact checks speeches by American politicians, it is easier to list the times Donald Trump told the truth than it is to list his lies.

The one time he said a totally true statement? When he was talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"He’s got an 80 percent approval rating done by pollsters from, I understand, this country. Okay?"

Meanwhile he is listed as having his pants on fire 16 times.

Our favourite has to be the time he told MSNBC that parts of London were so radicalised, the cops feared to enter them.

London's mayor says the only reason he wouldn't go to some parts of New York,  is a fear of meeting Donald Trump.

4: DJ Cleo's dad isn't mad - he's angry

According to the Daily Sun DJ Cleo told viewers of SABC3’s talk show 3 Talk with with Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu that his father was mentally ill.

“I don’t mean it in a bad way. I mean, there’s different levels of mental illness, his is at the very low scale but he’s not entirely stable.”

His father, Samuel Monyepao, wasn't exactly pleased.

“I was actually watching him on 3 Talk while he was saying those things about me. I want to tell people that he was lying through his teeth. He always lies to his sister, saying he always calls me and sometimes visits me.”

5: Trans-Rachel

It's not easy being black, and America's  Rachel Dolezal should know considering how spectacularly she failed at it.

Dolezal claimed 'I am definitely not white'. Her parents claimed otherwise, and provided the pictures from her blond haired youth to prove it.

Dolezal managed to maintain the lie for a decade, managing to become Spokane’s NAACP Chapter President and chair of Spokane’s Office of Police Ombudsman Commission.

She also lied about having lived in South Africa, and about having been beaten and abused for being black.

And, according to the Smoking Gun, she sued Howard University for racial discrimination in 2002.

The Smoking Gun reported that she claimed the decision to remove some of her artworks from a February 2001 student exhibition was “motivated by a discriminatory purpose to favour African-American students over” her.

6: Brian Williams - and oh really O'Reilly

CNN anchor Brian Williams recalled a terrible moment during the Iraq war when the helicopter he was travelling in was hit by an RPG.

For this lie he was permanently replaced by Lester Holt as host of the NBC Nightly News.

"I'm sorry. I said things that weren't true. I let down my NBC colleagues and our viewers, and I'm determined to earn back their trust," he said, promising to support his successor "100 percent".

You see, lying has consequences. Unless you are Bill O'Reilly, whose lies about his war reporting could fill a book - and have.

Media Matters has released a 56 page, six chapter ebook detailing the evidence.