Sarah Langa causes a stir with distasteful post amid femicide, xenophobia
The influencer said that if SA was a person, they would be wearing Rich Mnisi and Thebe's LVMH victory while drenched in tears for all the pain that women have suffered at the hands of men.
Sarah Langa. Picture: Instagram
Influencer Sarah Langa McKay found herself at the centre of a social media storm on Thursday afternoon after she posted and deleted a video of herself with animated tears edited onto her face in an image of herself wearing a designer outfit and expensive brand name bag.
https://www.facebook.com/mediagirlza/videos/776721839451927/
She has since replaced the post with a series of blank images followed by pictures of Uyinene Mrwetyana and Leighandre “Baby Lee” Jegels who were murdered in the last two weeks.
She also started trending on Twitter and her Instagram comments have been set alight with verbal abuse from fans who found the post to be in poor taste.
This is not the first time she has found herself in hot water on social media, as Langa-McKay has trended before for various controversial reasons including taking offence to being called black.
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Most of the criticism levelled against her has taken place on Twitter. Take a look at some of the comments below.
Activism with a pinch of content 😍😍
— Aluve Nguza (@aluvenguza) September 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/kellysjellys/status/1169591184609677312?s=20
😂 😂 😂 I was so confused when I saw this on insta!
— Faith (@Faith_S) September 5, 2019
😂🤣😂 Being an influencer is so weird
— MaLanga (@ZandiileL) September 5, 2019
Sarah said “bet.” https://t.co/vPiOOxTRzL
— YizoYizo (@Sibu_MpanzaSA) September 5, 2019
tears are temporary. drip is forever. pic.twitter.com/ebxXq98NIT
— Lelo (@lelowhatsgood) September 5, 2019
I like Sarah. She’s good people.
— Murendeni Mafumo (@Murendi) September 5, 2019
If y’all though Sarah Langa was gonna mess up her IG page’s aesthetic because of this, y’all were wrong. 😂
— Gemini SZN (@LeaveMeImHappy) September 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/Nokhodesa/status/1169604904274583552?s=20
https://twitter.com/HEEXUS/status/1169611309006168064?s=20
https://twitter.com/nomaswazii_/status/1169604339238887424?s=20
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