The Sunday Times newspaper has got it wrong yet again with another misleading article on comprehensive sexuality education
17 March 2020
The Department of Basic Education has noted with concern and disappointment the Sunday Times newspaper’s continued deliberate misreporting on the Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
On Sunday 15 March 2020, the newspaper published online an article by Prega Govender with the headline which says: “Department backtracks on comprehensive sexuality education”. That is false. There is no truth in this headline nor is there accuracy whatsoever in the first paragraph of the article.
The newspaper published the exact same article in its print edition with a different and yet completely misleading and false headline which said: “Explicit textbooks become optional”, the headline is followed by a sub-headline which is misleading the public even further by saying “Education bosses get cold feet over plan to teach birds and bees”.
The newspaper has used a combination of fact and fiction to attract the public to its publication. The published articles, which border on fake news, have done more damage to the Department’s efforts aimed at addressing a whole range of social ills that impact negatively on the lives of young people.