{"id":11603,"date":"2025-04-25T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:21:02","slug":"woman-who-said-she-gave-birth-to-10-babies-at-once-was-lying-authorities-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=11603","title":{"rendered":"Woman who said she gave birth to 10 babies at once was lying, authorities claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>June 2021<\/strong>, a South African woman named\u00a0<strong>Gosiame Thamara Sithole<\/strong>\u00a0claimed she gave birth to\u00a0<strong>ten babies at once<\/strong>, quickly making headlines worldwide. The story was first published by\u00a0<em>Pretoria News<\/em>, which said she delivered at Steve Biko Academic Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged \u201c<strong>Tembisa 10<\/strong>\u201d were said to have shocked even doctors \u2014 initially, the couple expected eight babies. The story spread fast and received attention from major outlets like the&nbsp;<strong>BBC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But&nbsp;<strong>suspicion grew<\/strong>&nbsp;as no hospital records or official confirmations could support the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Truth Unfolds: An investigation revealed that&nbsp;<strong>no hospitals<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 public or private \u2014 had any record of such a birth. Authorities confirmed that&nbsp;<strong>Sithole was never pregnant<\/strong>. Despite this,&nbsp;<em>Pretoria News<\/em>&nbsp;and its editor&nbsp;<strong>Piet Rampedi<\/strong>&nbsp;defended the story, claiming it was not fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rampedi, a friend of Sithole\u2019s, later admitted the story lacked proper verification, \u201cCould I have handled the story much better? Definitely,\u201d he said, adding that he never investigated the claims properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>motive behind the hoax<\/strong>\u00a0remains unclear, though donations and media attention may have played a role.<\/p>\n<div class=\"684f6003e199ca137b09540a661b4c2d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<!-- Composite Start -->\r\n<div id=\"M940464ScriptRootC1583286\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/jsc.adskeeper.com\/k\/o\/kohajone.press.1583286.js\" async>\r\n<\/script>\r\n<!-- Composite End -->\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0June 2021, a South African woman named\u00a0Gosiame Thamara Sithole\u00a0claimed she gave birth to\u00a0ten babies at once, quickly making headlines worldwide. The story was first published by\u00a0Pretoria News,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}