Mr Peter Bowen lodged a complaint, against Radio 702, in particular against the presenter of the 
15hrs-16hrs Show, Gareth Cliff, broadcast at 15:30 on the 12th September 2000.
The gist of the complaint is that, Gareth Cliff broadcast a racist story on his talk-show, by stating that the Shangaan tribe was created from apes, that Shangaan men have the biggest penises of all the tribes. Further, that his station manager Dan Moyane, being of Shangaan extraction, was similarly endowed and from all accounts was a true Shangaan. The utterances, Mr Bowen contends, are vulgar and disgustingly racist, as Gareth Cliff implied that some tribes originate from apes, and by inference are primates.
Mr Bowen states that such disgustingly crude, insulting utterances form the essence of Gareth Cliff’s Talk-Show, the inference being that Gareth Cliff deliberately sets out to offend listeners: his style of broadcast appears to be encouraged by senior broadcasters to be more outrageous and controversial.
Further Mr Peter Bowen contends that the broadcast was indecent and offensive to public morals and was likely to harm relations between sections of the population and is offensive to public morals. The broadcast further offended recognised standards of decency and accepted sexual morality as it was repulsively offensively indecent.
The broadcast further degraded people and negatively emphasised their differences. The Complainant does not believe that the Gareth Cliff show accurately reflects the values of the proprietors and management of Radio 702.
Mr Peter Bowen proactively offered some constructive suggestions to assist the broadcasters in monitoring maintaining decent moral standards in broadcasting. The criterion to be utilised in assessing whether a broadcast was indecent, offensive or obscene to public morals. This should be determined by what an ordinary reasonable listener understands by what is right, and good which ought not to have to be justified or proven.