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ANC Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte has handed over a memorandum of demands to eNCA’s managing director Norman Munzhelele after management’s defense of the organisation’s political journalist, Lindsay Dentlinger..
Duarte was leading a small group of ANC members who picketed outside eNCA offices in Johannesburg against racism.
They held placards saying: “Only racists can defend and justify racism”.
Earlier, Duarte said the nationwide pickets at the eNCA offices follows the widely publicized racial conduct of eNCA journalist as well as the subsequent justification of such “deplorable” conduct by the eNCA management.
Dentlinger is at the centre of a racism storm after video footage of her interviews with Freedom Front Plus leader, Pieter Groenewald, and the DA’s John Steenhuisen without their masks on, while she requested several black political leaders, including UDM Chief Whip Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, to keep theirs on went viral on social media.
Dentlinger has since apologised
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