Media 'emotionally blackmailing' us - BLF
6 July 2017
Cape Town – Black First Land First (BLF) and its head Andile Mngxitama strongly denied on Thursday that its recent protest action against journalists amounted to harassment, intimidation or threat, or an attack on media independence.
The response came ahead of the SA National Editors Forum (SANEF) appearing in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday to secure an urgent interdict against BLF.
SANEF wants BLF to stop harassing, intimidating, assaulting and threatening journalists and editors over their reporting on state capture and corruption.
This, after the BLF staged a protest in front of an editor’s house and issued a statement against a number of journalists.