A complaint was received about the use of the word “befok”, as read by a presenter from a note 
received from a member of the public at more or less 08:30 on a Saturday morning. Within context it referred to the “crazy” price asked for a Bafana Bafana football jersey. An Adjudicator of the Commission held that the word amounted to a word which contravened the Code since a large number of children was likely to have been in the audience. On appeal to the Tribunal it was argued that the word simply meant “crazy” and that it was part of acceptable slang. The Tribunal held that the word indeed meant “crazy”. Although the word had its root in “fuck” it was not “excessively or grossly offensive. The appeal was upheld.
