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South Africa: Sanef Acknowledges 'Devastating Impact' of Inaccurate Sunday Times Reports
News24Wire, 16 October 2018
Although the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) applauds the Sunday Times for owning up to its "serious editorial lapses", the forum has acknowledged the "devastating… Read more »
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Africa: South African Journalism's Problems Are Bigger Than Ethics - They're About Ethos
The Conversation Africa, 21 October 2018
When the editor of the Sunday Times in South Africa, Bongani Siqoko, published an apology in the newspaper earlier this month he surely set a new precedent in the country's… Read more »
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South Africa: How The Sunday Times Issue Shames All of Journalism
allAfrica, 17 October 2018
This last weekend, the editor of the Sunday Times Bongani Siqoko issued an apology for the reporting done by the newspaper on the Cato Manor death squads and the Zimbabwe rendition… Read more »
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Southern Africa: We Made Mistakes in Reports About Renditions to Zimbabwe - Sunday Times
The Herald, 15 October 2018
A major South African publication, the Sunday Times, has admitted writing falsehoods against Zimbabwe as it pushed a nefarious agenda for some South African political interests.… Read more »
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South Africa: Cosatu Statement On the Sunday Times Apologies
COSATU, 16 October 2018
The Sunday Times stories destroyed people's lives and also the economy and we do not believe that the Sunday Times can just shrug off this litany of lies and act as if it's… Read more »
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South Africa: Award Organisers Caught By Surprise As Sunday Times Returns Prizes for False Reports
News24Wire, 15 October 2018
"This is the first I've heard of it." Read more »
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Southern Africa: Good Stories to Tell About Zimbabwe
The Herald, 16 October 2018
Lies have such short legs. The Sunday Times of South Africa has just been disgraced for writing fake stories that were meant to soil two key institutions in that country -- the… Read more »
'We Got It Wrong' - Sunday Times Apologises for False Reports
Sunday Times editor Bongani Siqoko has apologised and announced that the paper will return all awards and prize money received for now discredited reports on the Cato Manor "death squad", the SARS "rogue unit" and Zimbabwean extraditions.
