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There was an unsigned response left to an RfC survey by Herbst du preez on the Talk:Racism in South Africa page. The response was subsequently signed by DumaTorpedo. DumaTorpedo then altered the response again to remove DumaTorpedo's own signature and make it appear that the response was signed by Herbst du preez. The response also contained the same misspelling of "ethnic" as "ethic" that DumaTorpedo made in his own survey response and several times elsewhere on the talk page.

Herbst du preez's first contribution was on the 12th of April 2018 and has only contributed to a few pages, namely: Racism in South Africa, Johannesburg (a page which has also been previously edited by DumaTorpedo), Afrikaans, and DumaTorpedo's talk page. WitbooiBrada's first contribution was on the 10th of May 2018 and has only contributed to Racism in South Africa, Apartheid (a page also edited by DumaTorpedo) and Cape Coloureds. Vusumuzi Mpofu appeared the day after admin NeilN gave the following warning to DumaTorpedo "Call good-faith edits "vandalism" again and I will block you" on his talk page (21st of April 2018). DumaTorpedo has already admitted a link to Vusumuzi Mpofu.

Given the above I strongly suspect that all four accounts are operated by the same individual and that they are being used to attempt to swing the talk page consensus and avoid 3RR violation when engaging in edit warring. Classical liberal za (talk) 14:22, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

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I signed incorrectly signed Herbst comments as my own by mistake after being asked ( in good faith to enhance the quality of Wikipedia) to by Ornilnas his “edits” to my talk page consist of a Barnstar only.. WitbooiBrada and myself have no links I have even reverted some of WitbooiBrada’s disruptive edits. Vusi and I study in the same college and I did encourage him to join Wikipedia, he is however a separate person entirely to myself. Furthermore the only links between myself and all these other users is Racsim in South Africa and Apartheid. DumaTorpedo (talk) 14:45, 14 May 2018 (UTC)DumaTorpedo

I am in agreement with Classical liberal za. The user Herbst du preez was created on April 12th 2018. The very thing this user did was to vandalize the talk page to support DumaTorpedo. Here are the 2 instances:. Highly likely the same individual operating with 2 different accounts. Thank you for investigating. Jansprat123 (talk) 16:08, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

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