Mzilikazi wa afrika
Sanef launches probe into 'Sunday Times' scandal
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...
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.
On Sunday, 'Sunday Times' editor Bongani Siqoko penned an editorial, acknowledging the newspaper was used as part of a political project.
The paper ran the 'tainted' scoops in 2011, which have turned out to be largely false.
The editor penned an editorial on Sunday, in which he acknowledged the newspaper was used as part of a political project.
Johan Booysen says he says this latest development has come as a relief.
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.
The allegations are contained in an affidavit made at a police station by former chief of security at Makheda Protection Services Ntokozo Dubazana.
Last month Mzilikazi wa Afrika wrote that Impulse International raked in contracts worth about R1 billion from Eskom.
The ANC has slammed Madonsela for refusing to name the party member she claims leaked her letter.
Authorities at a Gabon airport denied Mzilikazi wa Afrika permission to go through because he is a journalist.
Communications Minister Dina Pule hit back at the Sunday Times and its journalists.