This case deals with various complaints received against a documentary broadcast by the Respondent, the intention with the broadcast being to throw light on the abuse of a custom of a certain part of the population which resulted in an increasing number of deaths of young boys. While the custom is regarded by some as [...]

The complaint arose from a concert that took place at a pre-school in Pretoria. The school had a number of English speaking classes which were fully racially integrated. However there were a number of Afrikaans speaking classes. The children in the Afrikaans speaking classes were white and the school conducted a separate concert for the [...]

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 [...]

Footage showing the Complainant, Mr Chris Ngcobo, who was previously head of the Johannesburg Metro Police and is currently security adviser to the Mayor of Johannesburg, was recently again broadcast in a news story that in fact referred to his namesake, General Chris Ngcobo, acting head of the Police’s crime intelligence  unit.  The latter was [...]

The complaint concerning unsuitable language for children was received from a parent who raises his children on religious values and principles. [2014] JOL 32620 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION  

Complaints were received about the airing of a programme at 17:30. The programme amounted to what appears to have been a mock trial of two estranged lovers. The Complaint by the female partner was that the respondent had made an intimate video of her bathing, without her having been aware of it.  The complaints in [...]

The issue before the Tribunal was whether the publication of the face of a woman who had been raped, was permissible. Her face, and therefore her identity, was only divulged in one instance, while in other instances her face had been blocked out. At the hearing of the matter a letter, signed by the woman, [...]

The Respondent, a subscription television broadcaster, broadcast a news commentary which included visuals of a semi-intimate nature pertaining to a surgical operation.  The issue was whether it should not have included an age restriction and classification. The Tribunal held that, since the News and Comment clause in the Subscription Broadcasting Code does not require classification [...]

The eNCA’s Appeal is upheld on the grounds that the Tribunal of first instance clearly erred in giving a wider application of Clause 28.3 to govern the opinion of an interviewee in an eNCA Special Report.   The decision and sanction of the Tribunal are overturned. It follows that the Respondent’s Cross Appeal in respect [...]