CASE NUMBER: 11/2006 – VAN DEN BERG VS SABC2 – CHILDREN

Complaint about scenes in an episode of the series “Navy NCIS”.  In order to extract an admission from a detainee, a corpse is dissected in graphic detail and organs are pulled out of the dissected corpse in his presence with apparent sadistic gusto.  The broadcast was during family viewing time, starting one and a half hours before the watershed.  Although a warning of an age limit of 13 years appeared on the screens, the unsuitable nature of the material nevertheless resulted in the Respondent contravening clause 18.1. The complaint was upheld and a penalty of R 10 000 was imposed.