"Bono guides Juju" and "Julius Malema may have found an unlikely ally in U2 frontman Bono who, on Friday, 11 February 2011, waded into the debate over the singing of the controversial Shoot The Boer song." These were the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE headlines and opening lines, augmented at 10:31 on Sunday morning by another TimesLIVE headline, "Bono backs Malema's 'shoot the boer' song" that caused many South Africans to erupt in anger at U2's Bono.
...Local music journalists are critical about Sunday Times' reporting on the issue and go as far as to say the headlines were a deliberate distortion of the truth.
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