Tembisa 10

The Tembisa 10 was a South African journalistic hoax that falsely claimed that a 37-year-old Gauteng woman, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, had given birth to ten babies in a single pregnancy. The story was published by Pretoria News on 8 June 2021 and quickly gained widespread attention, with claims that the births had set a new Guinness World Record. However, official investigations later confirmed that the decuplets never existed. The article was subsequently declared a 'hoax'.

Tembisa 10
AuthorPiet Rampedi
SubjectA 37-year-old woman from Tembisa gives birth to 10 babies in one pregnancy
PublisherPretoria News
Publication date
  • 8 June 2021
Publication placeSouth Africa
Media typeNewspaper article