FROM THE MAIL AND GUARDIAN...
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been accused of systematic pro-government bias after taking a different stance from most fellow journalists in coverage of the controversial health minister.
Such allegations against the SABC mounted after its chief executive, Dali Mpofu, sent a resignation letter to the South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) charging that the media had behaved "shamefully" in much of their recent reporting on Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, accused of having a drink problem and a theft conviction...
Mpofu's attack infuriated Sanef, which believes such reports have been entirely justified and made comparisons with the whites-only apartheid era when SABC was little more than a tool of propaganda...
An editorial this week in the Times daily recalled how the SABC had worked hand in glove with the apartheid authorities and bemoaned that "history was repeating itself" under Mpofu.
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