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>The ANCYL remains resolute in its stance that SANEF has consistently
>committed itself to rejecting and denouncing anything positive about
>the ANC and Government. This has been continuously exposed by the
>negative reports, allegations and doomsayer approach with which the
>media commits itself to reporting about the ANC.
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>It should not be that in a country that allows one the priveledge of
>freedom of speech through the Constitution that an expression of truth
>against the media is equated to treason and should be a punishable
>offence. This, especially when the media is committed to false
>reporting and spreading of lies. There have been numerous incidents of
>such attacks against the leadership of the ANC and the ANCYL. Even
>after having engaged with journalists and editors the desperation to
>sell newspapers and false news remain at the core of their agenda to
>advance a raw, disrespectful, inconsiderate and selfish capitalist
>agenda.
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>The ANCYL is not perturbed by the vicious attacks on Cde Jimmy, as he
>speaks of an untransformed media that is indebted to an apartheid
>regime and can never appreciate the full effect of the democracy
>brought by the African National Congress.
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>We support Cde Jimmy Manyi in his efforts to engage on a balance of
>truths as opposed to being a subject of the Fourth Estate, one which
>should forever be committed to unbiased reporting, objective truth
>based on fact and not personal hatred against the Government led by
>the ANC.
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>These notorious tendencies are unwelcomed and we will never allow
>ourselves to be slaves of media prejudice, discrimination and
>victimisation that remains an extension of attempted reemergence of
>apartheid.
>
>We will support Cde Jimmy as we have no valued faith in SANEF and its
>puppets. We will strive for the hasty installation of the Media
>Appeals Tribunal and remain resolute that our people are not naive to
>the threats made by SANEF. We are aware of their cruel intent and will
>never become slaves to a media that is failing to attack the ANC with
>facts and hence relies on lies.
>