Humour

The pressure for likes on social media has spawned a stampede of liars

People are lying about where they’re from, what schools they went to, what they do for a living, their marital status, what car they drive and where they live

27 March 2022 - 00:01

Ntibane was one of the most contented, jovial people I knew. This is because he lived his entire adult life in the pursuit of two things: accessing his daily booze quota and narrating entertaining stories...

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