By: Natasha Archary
Liar, Liar! Pants on fire!
This was the sentiment after Nhlanhla Lux tweeted that his house was bombed and his entire family was killed in the National Shutdown on Monday, 20 March.
Lux’s tweet drew media attention with the eNCA covering the Soweto Parliament member’s story, interviewing him about the alleged bombing incident.
Claiming his house was hit by two commercial bombs, Lux said his entire family was inside his home in Pimville, Soweto when the supposed attacks were carried out.
Lux blamed the EFF for the attack on his and his neighbours homes, saying the party couldn’t handle being defeated by Soweto Parliament.
Footage of the “bombing incident” flooded social media, and Lux was labelled “the boy who cried wolf.”
Apart from a few windows that looked broken at his neighbour’s house, there wasn’t any further damage to the property.
Yet, when asked about his family’s wellbeing, Nhlanhla Lux said, “I haven’t consulted with my own family; since the bomb happened, I haven’t seen my own family or anybody else for that matter.
They all had to rush, and I had been operating with the police all night. Probably they’re hiding the fact that my kids are dead, but I won’t know that until I see them.”
Apart from fabricating the bombing, Lux also shared that his troops in Soweto had confiscated over 2 500 tyres.
Kaya Drive’s Sizwe Dhlomo found this to be hard to believe because that many tyres would require a lot of manpower and vehicles to move them in just a few hours, as Lux claimed.
Pathological liars
Pathological lying is when a person compulsively lies without a clear motive for doing so.
The lies may become elaborate and detailed, but they are often easy to verify. Pathological lies do not lead to any lasting benefit for the person who tells them, and they can be harmful to others.
These lies are extensive and elaborate, and the urge to tell them is compulsive.
Listen to the conversation on Kaya Drive:
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