The complaint is about a guest presenter on a talk show who made derogatory remarks about White people in such provoking way that it is alleged it amounted to hate speech. The context of the "diatribe" as one of the complainants described it, is that the presenter had his boyhood dream of becoming a train [...]
Complaint that comment by Redi Tlhabi in Talk Show implied that the dumber people in leadership in government were, the better. This comment followed upon a public statement by president Zuma, after his dismissal of the Minister of Finance, that people should not pay attention to people who talked too much on television because they [...]
Complainant argued that a short commentary by a visiting researcher from the Ukraine on the elections in Crimea was one-sided and ill-informed. The Tribunal held that the Complainant’s assertion regarding the researcher’s claim that the European Union’s electoral commission had not been allowed to monitor the elections, was incorrect. It was, however, as stated by [...]
In a news item reporting on a road rage incident, a profanity was uttered. The issue was whether the exclusion of other words which were probably indecent amounted to a distortion of the news. Held That the profanity, within the context, amounted to meaningless abuse in a report on road rage, and that it did [...]
A complaint was received about a statement made by Mr John Robbie of Radio 702, regarding the Stern Gang being responsible for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians in 1948. The complainant averred that Mr Robbie presented the matter as a fact, whereas his research indicated this to be untrue. The Tribunal held that it is clear [...]
Appeal – not containing “full grounds” of appeal as required by the Rules – not a valid application – matter struck from the Roll. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT
Radio 702 broadcast two aspects relating to the opening of a Saldanha Bay project on 31 October 2013 at 15:00: the relevant aspects were, firstly, that the Premier of the Western Cape, Ms Helen Zille, was booed when she was attempting to deliver a speech and, secondly, that the President, during his speech, admonished the [...]
A Tribunal held that the opinion expressed by a radio presenter, that the Applicant’s sexual assistance to his son amounts to “incest”, was not in contravention of the Broadcasting Code. It was an opinion expressed in a debate on the subject initiated by the Applicant. The latter has now applied to the Chairman for leave [...]
During a programme the Complainant called in to promote his idea of sexuality and persons who suffer from cerebral palsy. After having explained his view and approach to the matter, the presenter, Dr Eve, answered that she regarded what he did as incestuous. The Complainant argued that this amounted to an impairment of his dignity [...]
The Complainant argued that a case was described as one of xenophobia, whilst it was not a foreigner who had been attacked but a South African. Furthermore, that the attackers were not South Africans. What was, accordingly, described as xenophobic by the broadcasters, was not true. The Tribunal held that although the case made out [...]