Claim
On 23rd December, 2021, UPND Image Builders for a Better Zambia Facebook page posted an image of a defective road which they alluded was constructed by the former ruling Patriotic Front government. In the image attached to the claim, the article alleged that resources were plundered by the PF government in the construction of a substandard road that was peeling off.
Rating Justification
The Fact Checking process has determined as false, the claim that the image of the defective road posted by UPND Image Builders for a Better Zambia, was constructed by the former ruling Patriotic Front government in Zambia. A google reverse image search done by iVerify to confirm the source of the image revealed that the image was first posted on Twitter by chief Erican with the Twitter handle @ericanSA on the morning of Saturday, November 7, 2020. The write-up that accompanied the picture was “This is the newly unveiled Road in Zeerust in North West, South Africa”. iVerify further referred to a news report from a South African media house, News24.com, that similarly reported that the image of the peeling road is of a road in South Africa linking South Africa and Botswana. Therefore, the image of the defective road as posted by UPND Image Builders for a Better Zambia, was not constructed by the former ruling Patriotic Front government in Zambia, but is a road in Zeerust, North West, South Africa, linking South Africa and Botswana.