EFF condemn racist media reporting on rugby coach arrested for possession of child pornography
24 March 2021
The EFF condemns the disgusting and racist media reporting, by News24 and the Citizen Newspaper, on former Grey High School rugby coach Dean Carelse's arrest for possession of child pomography in Australia.
These two news outlets inexplicably used the name and picture of Springboks rugby Captain SiyaKolisi, in the reporting of a heinous and despicable crime of a white individual when he had nothing to do with the matter and his only relationship with the man was that he once coached him in high school.
This is racist reporting in that these news outlets used the face of a black man sensationally, to gain traction, instead of reporting on the crimes of Carelse on their own. Kolisi as a black man became the bait, as criminality is associated with blackness, and the hard-earned success of SiyaKolisi must be somehow tainted by the actions of an individual with whose crimes he has no relationship with.
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