Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 14-09-2016
Users of social media platforms like WhatsApp have been urged to check the content of the message before hitting the ‘send’ button after another case of a WhatsApp message sent to the wrong recipients has caused serious problems for the sender.
Beeld is reporting that a student at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology has landed in hot water after mistakenly sending a message containing a racial slur to the wrong WhatsApp group.
According to the newspaper, instead of sending the voice note referring to a fellow student as a “k*****m**t” to a friend, she sent it to a WhatsApp group of first-year students of which she is a member.
A second Afrikaans voice note continued: “Sorry vir daai een. Een van die wit meisies het vir daai “k*****m**t” gese sjuut of so iets”.
According to a student council member, the racist message came to light around two weeks ago.
A complaint has been laid with the university and it is currently investigating the incident as part of a disciplinary process.
This debacle follows the Margaret van Wyk incident where a wife sent a photo of her private parts, intended for her husband, to a hockey mothers’ WhatsApp group.
One of the group members reportedly took a screenshot of the image and posted it on social media.
The image trended nationally, under the hashtag #margaretvanwyk.
– Beeld
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