The Press Ombudsman has ordered weekly newspaper Sondag to publish a front page apology to Dan Roodt for publishing a defamatory article linking the Afrikaans writer and activist to an internet sex site.<\/p>\n
Deputy ombudsman Johann Retief found that the March 3 article created \u201cconsiderable and unnecessary\u201d damage to Roodt’s public image.<\/p>\n
The article told of a website encouraging Afrikaners to procreate to ensure the survival of the minority group.<\/p>\n
It said the site was managed by \u201ca sidekick\u201d of Roodt and a contributor to Praag, Roodt’s Afrikaans language activism group and website.<\/p>\n
Roodt complained that the article wrongly suggested that he and his organisation ran a pornographic site. He denied any involvement with the site. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Press Ombudsman has ordered weekly newspaper Sondag to publish a front page apology to Dan Roodt for publishing a defamatory article linking the Afrikaans writer and activist to an internet sex site. Deputy ombudsman Johann Retief found that the March 3 article created \u201cconsiderable and unnecessary\u201d damage to Roodt’s public image. The article told … Continue reading “‘Sondag’ newspaper must publish front-page apology to Dan Roodt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12252,17,676,675,12250],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-dan-roodt","tag-praag","tag-press-ombudsman","tag-sondag","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}