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An unwise display?
NEWSWATCH: Independent's senior group editors Karima Brown and Vukani Mde have been criticised for attending the ANC anniversary celebrations wearing party gear...
The ANC celebrations in Cape Town. Brown and Mde are not in this image, which shows a section of the stadium and some of the attendees. (Image extracted from YouTube)
For more:
- Politicsweb: Questions raised over why top Indy editors were in ANC colours... Two senior Independent Newspapers group editors attended the recent ANC 103rd anniversary rally in Cape Town in ANC-branded clothing - and it's led to some questions being asked...
In an article in the Daily Maverick, journalist Mariann Thamm stated that Independent Group Executive Editor, Karima Brown and Group Editor of Opinion and Analysis, Vukani Mde, had posted pictures of themselves on social media "decked out in ANC regalia, attending the party's 103rd celebrations in Cape Town."
- Grubstreet: Brown-Mde pic debate an insight into their leadership of Indie group... Writing in Grubstreet, Gill Moodie suggests that what Brown and Mde did was "unwise". (See the picture here).
- Politicsweb: Max du Preez rejects Indy apology over Zuma 'wrecking ball' piece... Meanwhile, still on Independent Newspapers, veteran journalist Max du Preez has publicly rejected an apology issued by Independent Newspapers over a claim he made in a column ("Zuma - SA's one-man wrecking ball)" run by the group late last year.