Watch — From Real Housewives fame to real ‘shoplifting’ arrest infamy

South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen revelled in the limelight.

Melany featured on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Pretoria.

And Viljoen styled himself as a legal eagle.

But all wasn’t as it seemed.

The couple perpetuated the lie that there is a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, with Afrikaners being violently targeted.

So they moved to the US, where they were arrested on shoplifting charges.

Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley explains.