Current Affairs: October 2014

#CAUTION

The statement, the commission held in its ruling on Monday, was “so clearly defamatory” that the show presenter was obliged to qualify and counter the statement. It stopped short of imposing any sanction on the SABC, but in effect laid down a new law for every major broadcaster in South Africa: thou shalt not let a hyperbolic insult go unchallenged. http://ow.ly/CEFD9

Be careful what you say on talk radio in future

The Broadcasting Complaints Commission has dealt a narrow-minded blow to free speech.

Good work (SARS)

SARS bugged Zuma

A former spy master blackmailed the South African Revenue Service into paying him R3-million to keep silent about how its rogue intelligence unit broke into Jacob Zuma's private home in Forest Town, Johannesburg, and planted listening devices.

Ebola is a form of population control: Chris Brown

Singer Chris Brown has shared his thoughts on the deadly Ebola pandemic, calling it a "form of population control."

The suggestion of community service sentence for Oscar Pistorius is 'shockingly inappropriate' for manslaughter says the prosecutor.

Psychologist: Oscar Pistorius 'is a broken man' after Reeva killing

Oscar Pistorius is a "broken man" after killing his girlfriend because he lost the woman he loved as well as his reputation, friends, income and sense of...