 ANC Media Release, 18 March 2010 ANC
response to SANEF statement
The African National Congress would like to
acknowledge a
letter titled: “Complaint against the
ANC Youth League”, addressed to the ANC through its Secretary General,
Gwede
Mantashe, from a group of political journalist.We also want to put it on record that the letter of complaint was acknowledged by the Office of the Secretary General to one of the complainants. We are non-the-less perturbed that whilst the complaint was receiving the attention of the ANC, a statement is issued by the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF), clearly diverting the ANC from work it had started to do on the complaint. At the receipt of the complaint by the journalist, the ANC was of the opinion that the complaint letter was as a result of genuine and legitimate concerns by the journalist. It is in this spirit that the ANC through its Office of the Secretary General went to investigate the content thereof, including starting verification of the said allegations. The inclusion of SANEF and a statement issued by them on the matter, without allowing the ANC to finalise its already started approach on the complaint by the journalist, has brought serious confusion and doubts within the ranks and leadership of the ANC. On the surface, it would look like there is ganging up of the broader journalistic fraternity against the ANC. This would in fact be construed to be true when looked from a perspective where attacks against the ANC and its leadership have become the order of the day. Our view is that the ANC should have been given an opportunity to deal with the complaint before it. The mere fact that the organisation was not given an opportunity to do so might be understood that the entire approach by the media, inclusive of the complaint, was meant to put the ANC in bad light from the onset. It would be very regrettable when our own organised editors forum is understood to be jumping into the bandwagon of attacking the ANC and deliberately damaging its image and standing within the South African society. Issued by: Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson African National Congress 54 Sauer Street Johannesburg 2001 18 March 2010 Enquires: Ishmael Mnisi 082 333 5550 -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to yclsa-eom-forum+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. |
