Nope, Miss South Africa wasn’t arrested in the UK with 2kg of cocaine

Fake news sites have been ‘reporting’ that Ntandoyenkosi Kunene was arrested at Heathrow carrying 2kg of cocaine, but Sun International quickly debunked the pretty obvious lie, originally spread by the fake news site www.te1egraph.co.uk – not to be confused with the The (actual) Telegraph –.

While the story was deleted shortly after being published, it – understandably – spread like wildfire and was quickly picked up on several other sites.

“We chose at first to ignore the reports because we believed that people would realise that it was from a fake site. However, in light of the fact that we have had queries from legitimate media outlets we would like to set the record straight,” Sun International’s Claudia Henkel said in a statement.

“Ntando has not been arrested and she has not been caught with any drugs in her possession. She is currently in South Africa and is not in London; in fact she has never been there.”