A complaint was received after a book extract containing explicit content was read outside the regulated watershed period by Rian van Heerden on Jacaranda FM. The station’s targeted audience at all times and particularly at the airing of the Scenic Drive are mainly adults. This is an extenuating factor. Provisions of Clause 6(1) and (11) [...]
This is an appeal against a decision by a Commissioner that a broadcast was not in contravention of the Code. The Appellant did not comply with the Procedure of the BCCSA by not filing grounds of appeal. He merely repeated his original grounds of complaint and added a new ground based on clause 15 of [...]
Complaint against 702 regarding alleged tardy, inaccurate news reports concerning mass shooting in Las Vegas in Oct 2017, which allegedly perpetuated existing stereotype of link between Islam and terrorism. Balance in interview with expert was questioned, as well as interviewee’s credentials. Tribunal held that 702 relied on information from international news agencies and in terms [...]
A complaint was received about comments by Dineo Ranaka, the co-presenter of the Bridge on Metro FM, that black South African men do not accept “no” from a black woman. These comments were made when she shared the experience she had at a set of traffic lights that morning. Clause 12 of the Code of [...]
Complaint about a broadcast of Berea-Hillbrow Home of Hope, a children's home where children in need of care and protection are being cared for. In the broadcast, which was intended to make people aware of the plight of the children, the faces of some of the children were shown on television. The Complainant, quoting section [...]
The complaint was about a broadcast of “Rhythm City” in which a woman was strangled in the context of extensive verbal abuse. The scene depicted torture in a domestic violence context. The broadcast allegedly violated the code in that it would have been harmful or disturbing to children and it was broadcast when large numbers [...]
DSTV: Cartoon Network – The Regular Show – 20h00 – 31 October 2015. Content unsuitable for family viewing, younger children. CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION [2017] JOL 36744 (BCCSA)
Complaint about offensive and unacceptable language unsuitable for children. [2014 JOL 32083 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT
Inappropriate sexual references at a time when children might be listening. [2014] JOL 32450 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION
That utterances by a person being interviewed on air amounted to hate speech. [2014] JOL 32628 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT