Malema bans AmaBhungane and Daily Maverick's Scorpio from EFF events: 'We shall treat them as enemies'

[BBSA]

EFF leader Julius Malema has banned investigative journalism units amaBhungane and Daily Maverick's Scorpio from attending party events.

Malema said this on Thursday during the EFF memorial service for former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

Speaking to party supporters, Malema said the three publications should be treated as the enemy, much like the EFF did when it banned Gupta-owned The New Age newspaper and broadcaster ANN7.

The ban comes after the units published an exposé on Malema, party deputy president Floyd Shivambu and Shivambu's brother Brian, as well as Malema's cousin, implicating them in the illicit flow of funds.

Malema bans amaBhungane and Daily Maverick's Scorpio from EFF events: 'We shall treat them as enemies' | News24

"We declare them as an enemy of the revolution, they should never participate in our events, we should never answer any question from amaBhugane, Daily Maverick from Scorpio. Let them write any nonsense they want to write about us. We know [the person] who writes their questions is Pravin."

m.news24.com

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

So any other news organisations in SA join in the boycott?

No...thought not.

Spineless. The media love the EFF for the clicks.

 

[lumeer]

The media can't stand by their own, yet expect the public to stand by them.

 

[Urist]

cool.. less malema then.
Ban ALL the media you idiot.

 

[TysonRoux]

LOL, EFF memorial service for former Zimbabwean president dictator Robert Mugabe

 

[TysonRoux]

LOL, as if that will stop them digging up dirt on the EFF cnut

 

[3WA]

Can’t really see how this would hinder an investigative journalism outfit. These are hardly the guys that try to report the soundbite from the event. These are the guys that cross-check and interrogate the soundbite.

 

[schumi]

Daily Maverick used to ask questions at Eff press conferences just to get the denials on record

 

[Whright]

cool.. less malema then.
Ban ALL the media you idiot.

That’s a bit harsh on idiots, idiots normally get E or F’s for wood work, not a G’s

 

[surface]

Looks like our own wannabe-kiddie-amin is following the footsteps, slowly and surely.

How the Ugandan media has borne the brunt of censorship for decades

Despite continual threats, the media in Uganda continues to tackle controversial issues and break big stories of corruption and abuse of power, writes The Conversation.

www.news24.com

Uganda has a long history of media censorship. The country’s first post independence head of government, Milton Obote who became prime minister in 1962, banned the intellectual Rajat Neogy’s Transition magazine. Idi Amin overthrew Obote in 1971 - during his regime, key journalists disappeared without trace.

 

[REAList_1]

The truth hurts.
Malema is nipping ...

 

[TysonRoux]

The truth hurts.
Malema is nipping ...

Yes, and that's what triggered the septic cnuts wild eyed rage interaction with reporters the other day.

 

[Düber]

If a tree falls in a forest....?

The EFF office will be a very lonely place if he chases all the journo's away.

 

[BBSA]

 

[Jabulani22]

Wow , communists censoring the media , who would have thought that possible ?

 

[Gordon_R]

Riposte from the DM: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-13-this-is-what-panic-looks-like/

The Economic Freedom Fighters, who pose as pugilistic revolutionaries afraid of nothing and no one, have now "banned" Daily Maverick, Scorpio, and amaBhungane from all of their events. For an organization that has a ‘War Council’ and a ‘Commander-in-Chief’, this appears to be a panic move.

 

[Sinbad]

Streisand effect incoming?

 

[BBSA]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1172264621752901633

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

So any other news organisations in SA join in the boycott?

No...thought not.

Spineless. The media love the EFF for the clicks.

Just stop going to their websites! I can't remember the last time I went to EWN or ENCA for news to be honest...

 

[flippakitten]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1172264621752901633

I love watching the eff being called out by the people they pretend to be representing.