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Copies of the 'Sunday Times' newspaper. Picture: @SiqokoST/Twitter

Mzilikazi wa afrika

Sanef launches probe into 'Sunday Times' scandal

By Tendani Mulaudzi

The weekly admitted this week that articles on the so-called Cato Manor death squad were part of a tainted scoops series in 2011 and have turned out to be...

  • Copies of the 'Sunday Times' newspaper. Picture: @SiqokoST/Twitter

    Sanef, 'Sunday Times' to discuss way forward in wake of false articles

    The title recently admitted that the articles which were used as reason to suspend and prosecute former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Johan Booysen, and more than two dozen officers from his unit, turned out to be largely false.

    1397 days ago
  • Copies of the 'Sunday Times' newspaper. Picture: @SiqokoST/Twitter

    Calls for ‘Sunday Times’ to reveal sources in false articles

    On Sunday, 'Sunday Times' editor Bongani Siqoko penned an editorial, acknowledging the newspaper was used as part of a political project.

    1398 days ago
  • Copies of the 'Sunday Times' newspaper. Picture: @SiqokoST/Twitter

    'Sunday Times': Political agenda behind death squad stories led to apology

    The paper ran the 'tainted' scoops in 2011, which have turned out to be largely false.

    1398 days ago
  • FIEL: Former KZN Hawks boss Johan Booysen.  Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Booysen thanks 'Sunday Times' editor for coming clean on death squad reports

    The editor penned an editorial on Sunday, in which he acknowledged the newspaper was used as part of a political project.

    1398 days ago
  • FILE: Former KZN Hawks boss Johan Booysen. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Former KZN Hawks boss Booysen feels vindicated by 'Sunday Times' admission

    Johan Booysen says he says this latest development has come as a relief.

    1398 days ago
  • Investigative journalist Stephan Hofstatter. Picture: Radio 702.

    ‘Sunday Times’ parts ways with Mzilikazi wa Afrika and Stephan Hofstatter

    Wa Afrika and Hofstatter were part of a group from the newspaper's investigative unit who wrote a number of stories which were later established to be false.

    1399 days ago
  • 'Sunday Times' journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika. Picture: Supplied

    'Sunday Times' denies reports linking journo to Eskom bribe claims

    The allegations are contained in an affidavit made at a police station by former chief of security at Makheda Protection Services Ntokozo Dubazana.

    1723 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom's Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: EWN.

    Eskom denies involvement in death threats against Mzilikazi wa Afrika

    Last month Mzilikazi wa Afrika wrote that Impulse International raked in contracts worth about R1 billion from Eskom.

    1937 days ago
  • Public Protector Thuli Madonsela. Picture: Aletta Gardner/EWN

    ANC: Madonsela must reveal 'leak'

    The ANC has slammed Madonsela for refusing to name the party member she claims leaked her letter.

    2909 days ago
  • Authorities at a Gabon airport denied Mzilikazi wa Afrika permission to go through because he is a journalist.

    SA journalist prevented from entering Gabon

    Authorities at a Gabon airport denied Mzilikazi wa Afrika permission to go through because he is a journalist.

    3249 days ago
  • Communications Minister Dina Pule. Picture: GCIS"

    Pule believes she will be vindicated

    Communications Minister Dina Pule hit back at the Sunday Times and its journalists.

    3400 days ago
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