In February this year, Yogas Nair was appointed internal ombud for Survé’s Sekunjalo Independent Media newspaper company. She assured readers that, on her watch, ethical journalism would be promoted. Read more
Anyone who watched 77 witnesses give eight months’ of televised under-oath evidence at the Mpati Commission of Inquiry must have realised its final report would be a damning indictment of Iqbal Survé and Dan Matjila. Read more
Barely three weeks after the South Gauteng High Court found that The Star, had defamed Maria Ramos, the Gauteng health department has said it is suing Iqbal Survé’s newspaper company and reporter Piet Rampedi. Read more
[OPINION] “The book offers a lot of new information that was not previously in the public domain. The newspaper’s conduct at the time does not come out well and it is clear that a number of its journalists have been irredeemably compromised. Some have retreated from public life but two of them, Mzilikazi wa Afrika […] Read more
In June 2019, SANEF commissioned Judge Satchwell and two panelists, Rich Mkhondo and Nikiwe Bikitsha, to investigate ethical standards at South African media houses. Read more
For those who do not know, Rampedi is a critically acclaimed journalist in South Africa who exposed the shenanigans of a secret surveillance unit that operated within SARS. ~ Ayanda Mdluli IOL 1/12/2019 The importance of the judgment – apart from the obvious – is that it removes all doubts about the veracity of the […] Read more
