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Fact Check: Old video shows Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations were held in Uganda in East Africa, NOT South Africa

The video is being shared with the caption “Auspicious Celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi in South Africa!!”

By 9 Sep 2022 1:05 PM GMT
Fact Check: Old video shows Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations were held in Uganda in East Africa, NOT South Africa

A video showing African people playing music on drums, while Indians are dancing to the beats and singing 'Ganapati Bappa Moriya' is widely in circulation on the social media. The video is being shared with the caption "Auspicious Celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi in South Africa!!"




Fact Check:

The claim that the celebrations are from South Africa is MISLEADING. The video is an old one and is from Uganda in East Africa.

When we searched the keyframes extracted from the video using Google reverse image search, we found a YouTube video published by a channel named Helping Humanity. The video was published in September 2017.

The video was titled 'This is an African style of celebrating Ganesh Festival… Shree Ganesh Temple, Entebbe, Uganda'.


The video was also shared in the article of Amar Ujala.com, which states " Ganeshotsav has started across the country from Thursday. On the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, Ganesha devotees brought the idol of Gajanan to their respective homes. For the next ten days, not only in the country but also abroad, the pomp of Ganeshotsav will be seen. Let us show you a video which is from the city of Entebbe in the African country of Uganda. Indians welcome Ganesh ji in African style at Entebbe's Ganesh temple."

We also found an ANI video that was published on September 13, 2018, stating that actor Anupam Kher shared a magical video of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in Uganda.


Here is the actor's viral tweet from 2017 about the celebrations.

On searching for Ganesh Temple, Entebbe, we found their Facebook page which shared a similar video of Ugandan nationals beating drums and singing 'Ganapathi Bappa Moriya'.

The claim that Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations were held in South Africa was debunked in 2021 too, but yet it is viral once again this year.

Claim :   Recent video of Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in South Africa
Claimed By :  Social Media Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Social Media
Fact Check :  Misleading
News Summary - A video showing African people playing music on drums, while Indians are dancing to the beats and singing ‘Ganapati Bappa Moriya’ is widely in circulation on the social media.
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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