RIGHT OF REPLY: Marianne Thamm’s analysis is without any factual basis By Piet Rampedi and Mzilikazi wa Afrika
editor Bongani Siqoko was “proof” that we were “played” when we published stories about the illegal South African Revenue Service’s unit.editor Bongani Siqoko’s apology for the SARS rogue unit and other stories was only the beginning of a “journalistic healing process”, the public still needed to know about and expose “the hidden hand that played Hofstatter and his colleagues”.This was not just sloppy reporting or journalists that got it wrong.
It would be perfectly in order were she to say if any possible information coming her way from the two was different. That is not what Thamm is saying.investigations unit which published “fake news”.investigative unit which published a series of fake news stories with regard to the SARS ‘rogue unit’ as well as the ‘Cato Manor death squads’ during 2013 and 2014.
Apart from the journalists who co-wrote the Cato Manor stories, other parties rejected the same apologies from Siqoko that Thamm attaches value to.editor when the Cato Manor story was published, said Siqoko had “cast serious doubt” over the publication of stories under his watch in 2011.He points out that only 12 of the killings, not 18, were suspicious. To his mind, this makes a difference. To mine it does not,” said Hartley.
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