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EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has said that the mere “touching” of an eNCA journalist by party members “is not harassment.”
This after an eNCA reporter and cameraman were expelled from covering an EFF Clicks protest at Goodwood Mall in Cape Town on Monday morning.
The South African National Publishers Forum (Sanef) has since condemned “abusive and intimidating behavior” towards an eNCA news team covering the EFF protest action.
Ndlozi tweeted: “But they are telling you that you can be here, but you are not allowed to speak to EFF members. It means that she was trying to interview them. I really don’t see harassment here. Simply touching her is not harassment. Touching has to be violent, invasive, or harmful to become harassment! “
But they are telling him that he can be here, but that he is not allowed to speak to the EFF members. It means that she was trying to interview them.
I really don’t see harassment here. Simply touching her is not harassment. Touching has to be violent, invasive, or harmful to become harassment! https://t.co/dzkglCGVcM
– Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) September 9, 2020
Ndlozi also posted other tweets in defense of his position that a mere journalist touch does not amount to harassment, tweeting in one of them that “the presidential protection unit has been pressuring journalists since the days of Nelson Mandela.”
The Presidential Protection Unit has been lobbying journalists since the days of Nelson Mandela. Journalists have never called this harassment; not a single journalist, senior or junior, has ever complained. An unarmed member of the EFF touches a journalist; you scream bullying!
– Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) September 9, 2020
In another tweet, Ndlozi questioned why eNCA continues to “come to us” after the broadcaster decided last year to stop covering the party’s election conference.
But @NCA Why do they keep coming to us when it is you who decided to abandon our lives in the EFF National Assembly? According to you, we are the undesirables! Since then we have asked them to LEAVE us ALONE as well. It is harassment to keep coming to us; you went far away. Stay away!
– Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (@MbuyiseniNdlozi) September 9, 2020
(Compiled by Makhosandile Zulu)
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