With that in mind, it seems that the more babies being born at once, to one mother, the more attention the birth gets

So it wasn’t a shocker that the incredible story of Gosiame Thamara Sithole spread like wildfire and went viral in the summer of 2021.

But when the authorities began to dig deeper into the extraordinary saga, they discovered that something wasn’t right. And when the truth finally was revealed, it resulted in a controversy that is still going on today...

In June 2021, news site Pretoria News banged their biggest drum to announce that a woman named Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, had given birth to 10 babies at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in South Africa.

According to journalist Piet Rampedi, who wrote the first article about Gosiame, the decuplets were delivered on June 7.

By giving birth to 10 babies, Gosiame Thamara Sithole broke the Guinness World Record, according to Pretoria News. Ms. Sithole and her partner Teboho, from a working-class township in the Gauteng province, near Johannesburg, were shocked when they welcomed decuplets after scans showed that she was pregnant with ‘only’ eight babies.