A complaint was received in regard to a news item on SABC news, which dealt with pre-paid water in a 1,30 minute insert. The Tribunal is of the view that the item did not make a sufficient connection between “some who disagree” and Ms Makotsoane, who was interviewed. It was not in dispute that Ms [...]
Complaint that Respondent broadcast news that was not truthful and accurate and that they intentionally or negligently departed from the facts by referring to the name Tshwane when reporting on news that had occurred in Pretoria. The Tribunal found that the Metropolitan Municipality of Tshwane had been established on 5 December 2000 together with its [...]
Top Billing is a well known programme on SABC 3, one of the tv channels of the SABC, the public broadcaster. It attracts a wide audience and deals with matters of interest, whether in the arts, travel, architecture and the like. In the programnme under discussion the presenter took his viewers to a Vietnam restaurant [...]
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 at 18:00, in the series “3 Talk”, the programme was devoted to a discussion of the trend in South African society known as “swinging”. To the uninformed: swinging refers to a lifestyle where couples join a club and have regular social gatherings where the partners respectively have sex with others, [...]
The Registrar received a complaint from the father of a child suffering from cerebral palsy, who was shown in a television programme in June 2005. The second complainant, which is an organization which concerns itself with litigation in which children are involved, joined as a second complainant. The programme dealt with maintenance problems of mothers [...]
Broadcast of sex scenes and nudity after the watershed hour. Whether, in spite of the eighteen age restriction accompanied with the SNVL icon, such broadcast appropriate to have been shown at the relevant time – held that the broadcast, although containing sex scenes and nudity, not beyond the South African contemporary standard of tolerance. [2005] [...]
News report about Cosatu complaining that restaurants in Cape Town are charging exorbitant prices and that this practice is harming the tourism industry. The owner of one such restaurant (Hildebrand Restaurant) complained that his establishment was singled out as one of the culprits by the manner in which the camera shots in the news item [...]
The term “Chinaman” was used by an independent sports commentator on the BBC World service. The BBC insert was fed to the SABC, which broadcast it directly. It was held by the Tribunal that the term amounted to hate speech. In the circumstances it was, however, also held that it would be utterly unfair to [...]
A complaint was lodged against the broadcast of the film “LA Confidential” after the watershed. It related to the taking of the Lord’s name in vain in this action thriller. The Tribunal held that within the context of the film as a whole, this utterance, as well as other instances, did not reach the level [...]
The Herstigte Nasionale Party lodged a complaint about the broadcast of “ID”, a satire on the killing of Dr Verwoerd, broadcast after 22:00 with an age restriction of 16 and a language classification. It was argued that the play broke down the image of Dr. Verwoerd and Afrikaners who supported him. Also that the play [...]