03 October 2011: David Africa posted the following critique on Part 1 of the Special Assignment documentary – claiming that Special Assignment had dropped journalistic integrity, and had embraced PAGAD. ‘Even less did he know’ that Part 2 of the popular SABC investigative journalism documentary would mute most of his assertions…
On Wednesday September 28 the SABC’s Special Assignment programme aired a documentary on the re-emergence of the organisation People Against Gangsterism & Drugs (PAGAD). South Africans will remember PAGAD as a Cape Town-based vigilante movement established in the mid-1990s that, after a seemingly peaceful start to its activities, turned to violence against drug dealers, gang leaders and their families, government officials and critical members of the Muslim clergy. Several of its members were convicted of violent crimes and sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. Before commenting on the content of the programme I wish to disclose that Special Assignment requested an interview with me, which I declined for reasons that will become clear imminently… Read more.
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