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Dr Nandi Diliza was getting ready to attend a wedding in KwaZulu-Natal when she received a call from her practice manager - her Twitter account was blowing up, but for all the wrong reasons. The 66-year-old, who spent years practicing as a doctor before opening her medical boutique, says she was shocked to find out that social media users had mistaken her for a different aesthetic practitioner - Dr Nandipha Magudumana.
"My practice manager calls me first thing in the morning and says there's chaos on social media," she recalls."And then she tells me, look at our page, and there we go, they're insulting me."Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.