Oliver Mtukudzi is alive and well. This has been confirmed by his manager, Sam Mataure after an article claiming he was dead got many fans worried.

“I don’t understand what all the fuss is about, Mudhara is very well,” said Mataure.

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The article emanated from a fake news Facebook page called Global New Segment and leads to a website full of similarly fake stories.

Fake news has taken the world be storm and recently a man in the US opened fire at Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant, after he had read a fake news story that the company was involved in a child sex ring which was lead by former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

Fake news stories are also said to have had an impact on the recent US election with people being fed made up articles to push certain view points forward.