Ukweli Integrity Watch — Folios https://ukweli.io/blog Monthly reads off the Ukweli Integrity Watch register of documents corrected, withdrawn, refunded or sanctioned over fabricated citations, sources or quotes. en Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Everyone read or heard about South Africa's AI policy that was withdrawn. How many people enquired if this was the first published draft? https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-03 https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-03 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 South Africa's 2024 National AI Policy Framework is still on the department's website. Not one of its twelve references is cited anywhere in its text, its contents page is missing three of twelve strategic pillars, and it says the country aims to overcome equality. The one revision it has had corrected the spelling of programmes. South Africa withdrew its draft AI policy over six invented sources. That was the least of it. https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-02 https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-02 Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 The withdrawn Draft National AI Policy also instructed government to review the mandate of an institute that has never existed under that name - one the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies itself helped found - and carried an author list that no translation can explain. What Ukweli found beyond the six invented citations. Our own content-fabrication register just crossed a line. Here is why we are not calling it a trend. https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-01 https://ukweli.io/blog/folio-01 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Ukweli keeps Integrity Watch, a public register of documents corrected, withdrawn, refunded or sanctioned because someone found citations, sources or quotes in them that turn out not to exist. The register's 2026 year-to-date count passed its total for the whole of 2025 - 32 against 31. Then we looked at how the register was built.