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2 months ago | allafrica.com | Ombud Watcher

Inaccuracies gave misleading impression, says McKenzie. But when will there be a proper account of how and why R800k was spent? It was the summer of 2024, and Paris was sizzling. So too were many of us, when we found out just how much taxpayers' money had been used to send Minister Gayton McKenzie to the Olympic Games: R804,591, the Minister told Parliament, including flights at R215,976, and "ground transportation" at R454,005.

2 months ago | groundup.org.za | Ombud Watcher

It was the summer of 2024, and Paris was sizzling. So too were many of us, when we found out just how much taxpayers’ money had been used to send Minister Gayton McKenzie to the Olympic Games: R804,591, the Minister told Parliament, including flights at R215,976, and “ground transportation” at R454,005.

Dec 7, 2024 | southafricatoday.net | Ombud Watcher

The latest salvo in the ongoing war of attrition between News24 and Independent Media to come before the Press Council concerns IOL’s publication of what IOL calls a “storified press statement issued by Sekunjalo”. News24 characterises the published piece as a news report that “consists entirely of extracts and paraphrasing” from the press statement and says a “storified press statement” is not journalism. Sekunjalo is the majority shareholder of Independent Media, which publishes IOL.

Dec 7, 2024 | southafricatoday.net | Ombud Watcher

In a piece that runs to just 100 words, excluding the title, Sunday World managed to breach a clause of the Press Code twice. Titled “Moegoe: Afriforum makes noise all the time”, the piece sought to make a simple point: that AfriForum’s differing responses to farm murders, seemingly on the basis of race, is hypocritical, making the organisation worthy of being labelled the Moegoe of the Week. But in doing so, Sunday World got two important facts wrong.

Dec 5, 2024 | groundup.org.za | Ombud Watcher

In a piece that runs to just 100 words, excluding the title, Sunday World managed to breach a clause of the Press Code twice. Titled ‚ÄúMoegoe: Afriforum makes noise all the time‚ÄĚ, the piece sought to make a simple point: that AfriForum‚Äôs differing responses to farm murders, seemingly on the basis of race, is hypocritical, making the organisation worthy of being labelled the Moegoe of the Week. But in doing so, Sunday World got two important facts wrong.