Sunday Times apologises to Qunta and Roberts

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"In its September 30 edition, the Sunday Times published a profile on Qunta headlined "So how dangerous is the Queen of Racial Politics?" where it cited her as one of the 12 signatories to a petition supporting President Thabo Mbeki in the HIV and Aids denial debate"

This sounds like it comes from one 'myadsl' forum member.:sick:


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"We... retract our statement that she was one of the 12 signatories, including Anthony Brink, Anita Allen, Matthias Rath, David Rasnick, Roberto Giraldo and Ronald Suresh Roberts, who supported President Mbeki at the outset of the Aids debate. We accept that she is not an Aids denialist."

The Sunday Times also retracted its statement that Qunta had come to Mbeki's defence when he accused ANC heavyweights Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale and Matthew Phosa of planning to oust him

So many lies in one article.:eek:
 
Jozi101 said:
Quote:

"In its September 30 edition, the Sunday Times published a profile on Qunta headlined "So how dangerous is the Queen of Racial Politics?" where it cited her as one of the 12 signatories to a petition supporting President Thabo Mbeki in the HIV and Aids denial debate"

This sounds like it comes from one 'myadsl' forum member.:sick:


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"We... retract our statement that she was one of the 12 signatories, including Anthony Brink, Anita Allen, Matthias Rath, David Rasnick, Roberto Giraldo and Ronald Suresh Roberts, who supported President Mbeki at the outset of the Aids debate. We accept that she is not an Aids denialist."

The Sunday Times also retracted its statement that Qunta had come to Mbeki's defence when he accused ANC heavyweights Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale and Matthew Phosa of planning to oust him

So many lies in one article.:eek:
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A credible publication retracts, what's wrong with that?
 
Good for her, at least she knows that being associated with Mbeki and his stance on AIDS is unbecoming in the extreme and enough motivation to take issue with it to clear her name.
 
chiskop said:
And what of the unlikeable mr Roberts?
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They even lied about him. :D

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20071008115047868C909115

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Ronald Suresh Roberts, author of Mbeki biography: Fit to Govern, who had also followed Qunta route in taking the Sunday Times to the Press Ombudsman over the same article, said that while he accepted the newspaper's apology he was concerned about the fact that the publication had chosen to recycle "Democratic Alliance propaganda".
 
Jozi101 said:
They even lied about him. :D

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20071008115047868C909115

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Ronald Suresh Roberts, author of Mbeki biography: Fit to Govern, who had also followed Qunta route in taking the Sunday Times to the Press Ombudsman over the same article, said that while he accepted the newspaper's apology he was concerned about the fact that the publication had chosen to recycle "Democratic Alliance propaganda".
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What The unlikeable mr Roberts really objects to is not so much the propaganda, but the fact that it's not ANC propaganda.

One really does wish that he would return from where he came from.
 
Sneeky said:
Good for her, at least she knows that being associated with Mbeki and his stance on AIDS is unbecoming in the extreme and enough motivation to take issue with it to clear her name.
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Well with her being the director of a company touting some untested "cure" for aids, she couldn't very well deny that the very disease her company was marketing a "cure" for didn't exist now could she?
:rolleyes:
 
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