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CASE NUMBER: 09/2020 – MEDIA MONITORING AFRICA – BALANCE
A complaint was lodged against the Broadcasters eNCA and etv for broadcasting an interview with a certain Mr David Icke, also known as a conspiracy theorist, whose view is that the Covid-19 pandemic is a [...]
CASE NUMBER 08/2020 – RUSTENBURG LOCAL MUNICIPALITY VS eNCA – BALANCE
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 [...]
CASE NUMBER 03/2020 – THE NOVA PROPERTY GROUP VS SABC, RSG – COMMENT AND BALANCE
A complaint was lodged by the Nova Property Group against the broadcaster of the programme RSG Geldsake. This is a programme in which business and financial issues are being discussed. The presenter mentioned, inter [...]
CASE NUMBER: 02/2020 – THE CHINESE ASSOCIATION, GAUTENG (“TCA”) VS SABC2 – HATE SPEECH AND DIGNITY
This is a complaint about a scene in the Afrikaans soapie “7 de Laan” where young people acted out a game known as rock-paper-scissors and where the words “Ching-Chong-Cha” were chanted. We were informed by [...]
CASE NUMBER: 27/2019 – KING EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL VS SABC1 – DIGNITY AND BALANCE
A complaint was lodged with the BCCSA by King Edward High School against the SABC for a broadcast dated 2 July 2019 at 21:30 on SABC1. The broadcast was a programme called Cutting Edge. Cutting [...]
CASE NUMBER: 12/2019 – KESWA VS MULTICHOICE – NEWZROOM AFRIKA – BALANCE AND DIGNITY
A complaint was lodged with the Registrar of the BCCSA against the Respondent for its news broadcast of 10 May 2019 which contained inaccurate information regarding the process followed in the handing over of an [...]
CASE NUMBER: 15/2019 – CITY OF CAPE TOWN VS M-NET CARTE BLANCHE – BALANCE
After viewing the Respondent’s segment about the Sandvlei Community’s concern regarding the spillage of raw sewage into the Kuils River by the Zandvliet Water Treatment Works managed by the Complainant - including going through all [...]
CASE NUMBER: 14/2019 – eNCA VS STRYDOM AND TAYLOR – COMMENT
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 [...]
ADJUDICATION NO: 30/A/2018 – MATABANE AND TSHIVHASE – HARMFUL TO CHILDREN
The complaint herein is that the Broadcaster, on the morning of 28 June 2019, at 6:35, broadcast material that constituted advocacy of hatred and was disturbing to children. CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION
CASE NUMBER: 10/2019 – FIRSTRAND FINANCE COMPANY LIMITED VS SABC3 – RIGHT TO REPLY
A complaint was lodged with the registrar of the BCCSA against the Respondent for its broadcast of 10 March 2019. The broadcast pertained to allegations of racism against black people in the context of credit granting [...]