The SACP condemns the Guptas newspaper’s toxic concoction
3 June 2016
The Party is holding a Central Committee meeting and will announce its outcome on Sunday at 12h30.
The Gupta mouthpiece, The New Age newspaper, has concocted a toxic gibberish in its Friday 3 June front page propaganda headlined “SACP ‘must self-correct’”. The New Age is obviously defending the brazen smash and grab accumulation agendas of the Guptas that the SACP robustly disagrees with and condemns in the strongest terms possible. The story by The New Age is unethical and contains violations of the ethics prescribed in the ‘Press Code of Professional Practice’.
The Code sets out the standards of good practice, and is categorical that the press must report news fairly, must be accurate, truthful and balanced. The New Age must retract the entire unethical content of the story. The SACP strictly reserves its rights in law; to deal with the matter should the Gupta newspaper remain intransigent and fail to retract such content.
In the story, The New Age claims that: “The SACP has registered its own candidates to contest the elections in the Eastern Cape’s Alfred Nzo district municipality. They went against our advice and refused to cooperate”. The newspaper attributes this gibberish to ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe, who knows where to contact the SACP, how to engage with the Party including necessity of validating with it any information that comes to his attention concerning the SACP. The SACP outright dismisses the claim as a BIG LIE.