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
A new website has been created which exposes all the falsehoods in The Lost Boys of Bird Island in clinical detail. Read more
Jacques Pauw regards So, For the Record as ‘The most important book about the fourth estate since apartheid’ and I believe the plaudits are well deserved. Read more
