Broadcast of corruption allegations against Mr. Mputle’s request of ‘facilitation fee’ payment before awarding a Rustenburg Local Municipality (RLM) tender to Mr. X, created the impression that RLM is corrupt. RLM refuted the allegations that there is a relationship between Mr Mputle and itself – RLM felt that the broadcast lacked balance as its side [...]

The Appellant was granted leave to appeal against the finding of the Commissioner under adjudication number 20A/2019. The initial complaint was based on a news broadcast that was aired on the 17th of April 2019 at 19:30. The broadcast consisted of an interview between the Appellant and the Respondent where the Respondent was asked to [...]

The complaint deals with a wrong age restriction that was provided by the broadcaster on the EPG for a film that was broadcast on etv’s Open View platform. The age restriction was indicated as 13 on the EPG. The complainant’s two daughters were watching television when the film started. The correct age restriction and audience [...]

The complainant complained about a news feature that was broadcast on eNCA channel following a report during a news programme about a mass shooting in the USA. The complainant was of the opinion that the interview constituted news and therefore subject to the provisions of Clause 28.1 of the Code of Conduct for Subscription Broadcasting Licensees. [...]

Complaint concerning the broadcast of allegedly inaccurate, unfair, biased, highly inflammatory and misleading news stories regarding the shooting of a farmworker. CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION

This is a complaint against a broadcaster that violent scenes in a soap opera were rather gruesome and should therefore be taken off air.  This was an episode of a series called The Santa Diablo Aka Broken Angels. Tribunal explaining that it has no authority to take episode off air or ordering broadcaster to do [...]

APPEAL The broadcaster appeals against the BCCSA adjudication that its broadcast of the series ’Unusual Suspects’ on 17 May 2017 between 17:30 and 18:30 was in contravention of clause 6(1) of the Broadcasting Code whereby a fine of R10 000 was imposed.  The Tribunal revisited the meaning of ’child’ as per clause 1 of the [...]

broadcast of an interview with a Black man in which White men were implicated for the death of a young Black boy. This happened in Coligny where violence errupted after the death of the boy. No allegations made by Broadcaster about the facts of the incident. They broadcast the interview as part of the news [...]

The complaint concerns the alleged misleading through a translation of a Zulu language expression to the English language by the Broadcaster, thereby not likely to convey the proper message of the plight of community members. The applicable clause 11 of the Code determines that news must be truthful, accurate and reported in a fair manner [...]

The Registrar received a complaint wherein the word “msunu” was included in a pre-recorded broadcast by the Respondent. The time of broadcast was 10h00 on a Sunday morning. It was not disputed that the word is grossly offensive and cannot have any other meaning than that of referring to female genitalia in a vulgar and [...]