CASE NUMBER: 06/99 – MEYER AND SURGEON VS SABC3 – AGE RESTRICTION
In this matter the Commission held that mere classification for a programme is insufficient if the programme also justifies an age restriction. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT
CASE NUMBER: 10/99 – WIBLIN VS SABC3 – SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT – DIGNITY
Complaint against broadcaster not upheld where broadcaster did not effectively cover face of person who solicited prostitute in public. Commission holding that since the person referred to did not complain, the matter could not be heard by the Commission. A complainant would have to make out a public interest case before the BCCSA could adjudicate [...]
CASE NUMBER: 11/99 – THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION INSTITUTE AND OTHERS VS SABC3 –
The Freedom of Expression Institute and others lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa that a news item which informed viewers that the contract of the producer of "Special Assignment", Max du Preez, would not be renewed, was in conflict with the Broadcasting Code. The complainants alleged lack of balance, inaccuracy [...]
CASE NUMBER: 12/99 – INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY VS SABC3 – BALANCE
At the core of the complaint by the Inkatha Freedom Party was the fact that at a session of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Amnesty Committee, a Mr Nosenga, who applied for amnesty, observed that Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, had praised them for what is generally known as the [...]
CASE NUMBER: 13/99 – ALLINGTON VS SABC3 –
News item concerning flogging by alleged rape victim and by members of "a taxi association" of alleged rapists who had been set free on bail. Complaint that broadcaster should not have shown these scenes of flogging and that, by attending the flogging and broadcasting footage thereof, the broadcaster made itself guilty of criminal collusion with [...]
CASE NUMBER: 14/99 – BOUWER AND LEE VS SABC3 – CHILDREN
Film dealing with the life of a teenage group on the streets including their crude language, sex and violence. Film was shown on World Aids day. Commission finding that given the time of the broadcast, there was a duty on the SABC to have shown this kind of film. It warns parents as well as [...]
CASE NUMBER: 18/99 – PRO LIFE SOUTH AFRICA VS SABC3 – BALANCE
The complainant filed a complaint with the BCCSA alleging that a programme which was broadcast on SABC3 about pro-life movements in the USA was biased and implied that Pro Life South Africa would, as the pro life movement in the USA, resort to violence to get their viewpoint on abortion across. The BCCSA held that [...]
CASE NUMBER: 19/99 – AFRIKANER WEERSTANDSBEWEGING VS SABC3 – NEWS
Een uit sewe klagtes van AWB teen SABC gehandhaaf. Die spreker se verwysing na "bevele" is buite konteks aangehaal. Hy het in die relevante gedeelte gesê dat hy "verantwoordelikheid" vir die dade van sy volgelinge aanvaar; nie dat hy bevel tot optrede gegee het nie. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT
CASE NUMBER: 21/99 – LORGAT VS SABC3 – BALANCE
Complaint that SABC had not broadcast the outcome of a BCCSA judgment on the non-renewal of the contract of Mr Du Preez, a TV producer, correctly. The Complainant also argued that the SABC should have rectified the lack of balance which the BCCSA found to have existed in the programme. Held on: that the essence [...]
CASE NUMBER: 23/99 – CRAWFORD VS SABC3 – BAD TASTE
The complainant lodged a complaint about an advertisement for a programme “But is it Art?” The advertisement was broadcast during the early evening viewing time and showed two women kissing and a naked man wearing an apron, from behind. The Commission found that the advertisement should not have been broadcast before the watershed. CLICK TO [...]