By Johnathan Paoli
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has welcomed the recent correction by City Press of what he describes as a “false and misleading” article about his official travel to the BRICS summit in Brazil last year, while warning that the original reporting forms part of a broader campaign aimed at derailing clean-up efforts within his department.
In a detailed statement issued by the ministry on Sunday, Macpherson said the corrected article now accurately reflects that he did not ignore legal advice regarding his partner’s travel, that the total cost of the working visit amounted to R350,000, and that no fruitless or wasteful duplicate bookings were made.
“Similarly to the tactics used in the fightback campaign used when we tried to clean-up the IDT with the use of fake news articles and social media bots, City Press published a blatantly false article and headline which was widely
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