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Fake TikTok Doctor - 'Dr Matthew Lani' Charged with Identity Fraud · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to another episode of Banter
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  Now let us dive into today's episode because it's it's.
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  Yeah, I don't even want to say it's funny, but we are still
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  trying to settle the issue of the auxiliary nurse who injected
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  more bad. There has been a whole lot of
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  revelation regarding that. We have doctors coming out to
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  call out other doctors saying that these people, because they
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  need cheap labour, they are bringing in people who are not
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  even qualified to be nurses to help them out.
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  But these people or the Auxiliary knows the way they
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  call them. They go out there because people
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  are seeing them in the hospital thinking they are nurses.
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  So they call them and they help them with treatments and every
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  other thing. This is not just a Nigerian
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  thing, this is an African thing now in South Africa.
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  Doctor Matthew Lenny Alleged Doctor Matthew any has been
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  trending on both social media, Twitter, TikTok.
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  He started on TikTok He started as a doctor, you know claiming
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  to be a doctor dishing out advice.
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  He said he was or he is HIV positive and he kind of
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  developed the medical cure, something that he was taking and
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  people started to push because he went to school.
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  He claimed he went to Cambridge. A lot of certificate that he
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  claimed to have obtained. You're helping Health department
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  has opened a criminal case against the social media
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  influencer claiming to be a medical doctor, officials say.
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  27 year old, popularly known as Matthew Lani, has been falsely
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  presenting himself as an employee at Helen Joseph
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  Hospital in Johannesburg. But he has now been exposed as
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  fake. And who actually, apparently
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  actually stole the identity of a medical intern at another
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  institution. The Health Professions Council
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  of South Africa and the university have all distanced
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  themselves from this bogus Dr And let's get you more on this.
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  We'll speak to the health department in just a moment, but
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  for now, let's welcome Doctor Mohammed Masika, who's with the
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  Health Professions Council of South Africa, joining us now via
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  our video link. And Doc, it's great to have you
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  on the programme. Thanks very much indeed for
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  making time. You know it was in June this
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  year when the HP CSA. Actually came out to say about
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  120 bogus doctors have been found through your own campaign,
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  your own work to try and root out these people from your
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  profession. But I wonder how this particular
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  story came to your attention. I mean, have you seen anything
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  like this before? No, not yet.
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  But it's part of a process. Getting rid of bogus doctors in
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  our country is a process and definitely not an event.
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  We get quite a number of them and my investigators are busy
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  trying to get through to this particular person.
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  We are now in consultation with the Department of Health and how
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  they and the SNP has to be able to to liaise by.
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  Investigators are busy so that they once ultimately the arrest
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  is made, will be able to give you information on it.
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  You must remember we are in the business of guiding the
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  profession and and and protecting.
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  Communities. We cannot let people out there
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  create unsuspecting communities without the relevant
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  qualifications. Absolutely.
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  Well, people were saying, you know, with the age of social
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  media right now with all these Gen Z, because he's 27 years
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  old, people started thinking at 27 years old, Doctor, you have
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  to have like classmates, you have to attend events, you have
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  to be in the hospital because all his videos were done in
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  living room. And you know some people are
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  saying if you actually a doctor you there has to be evidence
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  that will prove because this guy went viral, he even started
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  trying to invent or create a cream products or something when
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  the HIV one wasn't selling. So people started poking holes
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  in what he was saying. Because, I mean there are some
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  professions that you cannot fake because if you say you're a
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  doctor, there are certain questions that people will ask
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  you and you are not able to provide kind of information for
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  them. Or you know, just people just
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  saw him as a very young, like there's no way this since 7
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  years old guy would be doctor. I don't have a matric
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  certificate. I have a high school diploma
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  because I got a scholarship to study through the Cambridge
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  International. Schools.
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  So I actually have a high school diploma from Cambridge
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  University from TikTok and they were concerned because they said
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  that they've never seen you posting videos of you in a
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  hospital or a doctor's office and when they tried switching
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  your name on the registrar, you did not appear.
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  So they think that you were fake doctor.
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  So I had to now give that HP CSA by full name by peaceful number
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  my HP CSA number for them to confirm that I'm registered with
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  them, whether you like it or not, whether you want to accept
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  it or not. I am a doctor.
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  I am a daughter. Like you're gonna Mona and
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  create something of your own. Zangewa is my legal surname, so
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  don't go to the HPCSA database and put in lamison, which I've
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  also said it before, it's not my surname.
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  And when you don't find results you get excited.
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  Because now what happens is that you'll get excited because
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  you're gonna take me down, you report it to the HCA, the HP CSA
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  calls me, they confirm my things then.
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  So the at least the HPCSA will put it on record.
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  That. Lani and Zingara.
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  Same person. Since my popularity is attached
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  to the longstanding OK, so when you go on the HPC website you
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  are not going to find Lanny because that's not my surname as
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  hey guys, I'm so with the allegations that have been
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  happening in the past couple of days about me, no media which
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  has reported it has ever reached out to me to get my side of the
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  story. The media has only been
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  reporting what black Twitter has been saying and I find that to
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  be quite unfair and very misfortunate because there is a
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  lot of. Misinformation that is going on,
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  which has resulted in the statements that have been
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  released. But Radio 2000 has reached out
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  to me and it is the only media house that has reached out to me
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  to get my response. So please catch me on Radio 2000
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  at 11 to get my truth. Look, I know that faking being a
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  doctor is wrong. It's it's unethical.
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  It's illegal. You could potentially harm
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  people. But he really said to Lulu is
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  the Zulu. He said be Delulu until it
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  becomes true Lulu. He bought himself scrubs and he
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  embroidered them. He didn't just have the
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  stethoscope. Could you imagine how far you
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  would get if you had that level of Duluth, if you were that
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  confident with the qualifications and skills that
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  you have? Obviously nothing illegal or
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  unethical, but just being that level of confident, the friends
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  and the family didn't say anything.
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  Being that level of Delulu with that kind of support structure,
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  you'd go far, you'd go places. I'm not condoning anything that
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  he's done, but I'm just saying that some people.
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  Do not believe in themselves enough.
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  Be Delulu it's it is sad that a whole lot of people have lost
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  their lives because of this fake doctors or fake nurses or fake.
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  I mean we the TikTok guy, doctor Matthew Lenny.
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  People are finding it funny. But if you actually look at the
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  case of Mobad these are the issues because this guy was
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  producing certificates. He was saying he was working
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  here. He was working there.
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  I remember there was a street that my one of my friends was
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  living in. There's this alleged Dr that was
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  actually the doctor was sacked according to what he told me
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  because she was not feeling fine.
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  So she said she wants to go to the chemist to get medication.
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  I said OK, so they went to the chemist.
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  The chemist was not open, so they had to.
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  She said OK should go to the doctor's place.
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  And this was in the afternoon. I was like, why?
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  What is a doctor doing in the shop by this time?
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  She said, oh, he had issues in the hospital so they kind of
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  sacked him. Is still looking for work.
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  And then he opened this. I said, Are you sure he's a
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  doctor? She said yes, he worked at that
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  hospital. Why was he sacked and why was he
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  sacked? So people didn't really care
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  because you know, these are less people that don't have money
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  will just go there to be treated and this man will be injecting
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  people, giving people medication and you don't, you don't know
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  where. But we have a sitting president
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  right now that forged every certificate that even dates of
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  births, even birth certificates he forged.
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  So what are we even talking about?
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  Where do we start fixing a problem where the top of the the
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  food chain is corrupt? I don't know where we go from
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  here and some of these carers or some of these auxiliary
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  whatever, when they now face their own certificates and come
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  to the abroad and start working, those are the people that get
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  into trouble. Then they will say ohh racism,
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  racism. They they they singled me out,
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  they did this, they did that. I am not saying there's no
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  racism, but if you know what you're doing, most of them if
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  you actually because this we don't play with lives, they
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  don't. So you carry that mentality, you
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  come here, you want to do the same thing, you are going to get
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  into trouble. You will anyway that's allowed
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  to save on this topic. Please like like, like and
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  share. Thank you very much.
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  Bye, bye.