Lindsay Dentlinger: DA to report ANC and EFF to SAHRC for race baiting
05 March 2021
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will lay a complaint against the ANC and the EFF with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for race baiting.
This follows a now debunked video that made the rounds on social media suggesting that the eNCA reporter Lindsay Dentlinger racially discriminated against Members of Parliament when asking them to put on their masks.
The ANC launched an anti-racism campaign as well as a protest led by ANC deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte, effectively calling Dentlinger a racist without reviewing the evidence. The party further fueled tensions by claiming the channel had a “history of mistreating black people”.
The EFF likewise called for a total boycott of the news channel, labelling them as a propaganda arm of “white monopoly capital” – a narrative the EFF constantly perpetuates when it suits them to score political points.