Viewed more than 400,000 times, the post features a 55-second video that shows five men emerging from a roadside thicket at night to attack cars waiting in traffic. One of the cars was a red four-door sedan while another looked like a dark-coloured SUV.<\/p>\n
The video has been linked to other countries, including South Africa<\/a>, where it was published on X on April 22, 2024.<\/p>\n Both claims, however, are false.<\/p>\n To verify the claim, AFP Fact Check took a screenshot of the clip in the posts and carried out a\u00a0reverse image search<\/a>.<\/p>\n We found that a Botswanan news outlet, Mmegi Online, published a longer version of the video<\/a> on its YouTube channel on February 11, 2022 (archived here<\/a>).<\/p>\n The caption explained that the video showed \u201cthugs in Gaborone\u201d attacking \u201cmotorists\u201d.<\/p>\nOld video from Botswana<\/h3>\n