Is Gavin Meiring at Heart FM for real?

"His claim was that women were easy in Cape Town and he set out to prove the point. Phat Joe will always want to engage in debate and this was the way he chose to do it,"

This was the response by Heart 104.9's managing director Gavin Meiring of his latest acquisition Majota “Phat Joe” Khambule having called a female listener a slut after simulating sex with her on air.

Is this for real? Is this Meiring character really condoning these statements? Is he saying that it was justified for Phat Joe to have a debate on a breakfast show about whether or not Cape Town women are easy? Is this the sort of content that the supposed “station with family values” agrees to? The answer to these questions based on Meiring's response is an affirmative yes.

According to Meiring, it is ok for his jocks to speak like that during morning peak hour traffic where children travelling with their parents can listen to statements such as “I put my hands around your hips and lift you up” and then have Phat Joe say to the traffic anchor that a listener was “behaving like a complete slut”.

It is clear that Meiring has no idea what it means to “engage in debate”. Debate according to the dictionary Mr Meiring, means “to talk about something at length and in detail, especially as part of a formal exchange of opinion”. Where does simulated sex on radio and calling a listener a slut equal to engaging in debate? Come on Meiring, Phat Joe messed up big time and you need to admit it.

The other explanation to your ridiculous response is that you are thriving on the publicity you were going to get when you employed this person in the first place.