Application for condonation for late filing of complaint – insufficient reasons for filing complaint more than three months beyond due date. Application dismissed. [2014] JOL 32627 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT 

Complaints that a representative overview was not provided in a Carte Blanche programme that dealt with the fees of veterinarians not upheld. It was found that the reasonable viewer would have seen the programme as informative and that, in any case, the veterinarians interviewed clearly explained fee structures. The President of the South African Veterinary [...]

The Complaint was that MNET, in a Carte Blanche programme on the evening of 23 February, failed to provide the Complainants, Mr Diamond in particular, with a right of reply on some of the crucial matters, thereby allowing the formation of opinion based upon incorrect facts.  The Broadcaster responded that the Complainants had followed a [...]

A complaint was lodged against a broadcast of the programme Carte Blanche in which corruption and mismanagement in the Local Municipality of Madibeng were allegedly exposed. The complaint was initially about four instances of contravention of the Code of Conduct, though one complaint was withdrawn before the hearing.  In the three remaining instances the complaints [...]

Disturbing promo showing graphic child abuse broadcast before the watershed, with no advisory to viewers. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT 

Complaint about a programme in which company that provides service in obtaining visas on behalf  of clients was exposed, according to the Broadcaster, as a business that made inaccurate representations to the public as to the likelihood of obtaining visas and employment in other countries and to shift the risk of failure to obtain such [...]

This matter concerns a complaint that an explicit scene of male genitals in the film “Hall Pass” caused the Complainant to suffer shock, puzzlement, dismay and embarrassment. The scene was broadcast in the context of a comedy film about two men being given a “Hall Pass” to relieve them of their marital duties for a [...]

Appeal - leave granted on matter pertaining to a programme in which the first Tribunal found that the broadcaster had treated the distributor of the Electro smart apparatus unfairly. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT    

Clause 28.2 of the Subscription Broadcasting Code addresses (as does clause 12 of the Broadcasting Code for free-to-air broadcasters) only programmes which feature matters of public importance. They do not address matters as mundane as a reality programme. Although section 39 of the Constitution permits the Tribunal to adapt the law to bring it in [...]

The complainants complained that a product called an Electro Smart apparatus had been misrepresented in an insert shown on Carte Blanche. They complained that Electro Smart was portrayed as a mere timer. It was also implied that it did not save electricity. A further complaint was that Carte Blanche failed to properly deal with a [...]