If @News24 is committed to accurate reporting of General Mkhwanazi’s remarks last Friday, it should ensure that his statement is quoted in full: “If authorities don’t intervene, there will be blood on the floor.”
Notably, nowhere in his utterances does he specify whose blood would be on the floor should authorities fail to intervene. It could be anyone’s.
And only if there’s dereliction of duty by those empowered to intervene.
I hold no brief for Mkhwanazi. However, it is incumbent upon the media to report responsibly and with fidelity to what was actually said.
Extracting a phrase from its broader context can create impressions that the original statement does not support.
Context matters. Accuracy matters. Both are essential to informed public discourse.
The Nonsense24 propaganda interview with Andrea Johnson did not yield the intended result.
She was meant to be portrayed as a victim of crooked police Generals and a crime-busting hero; but South Africans are not dumb.
She is a pathetic and rogue prosecutor who should be fired and arrested.
@nickimoraa She didn’t break. She rebuilt.
And sometimes that’s the part people don’t expect when someone becomes their own beginning after being treated like an ending.