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TimesLive reports that the SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has condemned threats and intimidation directed at a journalist working for The Herald in the Eastern Cape.
The reporter is in hiding in a safe house after her publication saw screenshots from a community WhatsApp group where members were allegedly threatening to “deal” with her. This follows a protest she covered earlier this month where locals clashed with foreigners in Plettenberg Bay. According to a statement issued by Sanef, the reporter was this week forced to leave her home because of threats of violence by community members in KwaNokuthula township. Sanef indicated: “The Herald editor Rochelle de Kock told Sanef the reporter was now staying in a safe house. So bad has the situation become that the reporter and the publication decided her news reports will no longer carry her name to mitigate the intimidation and make her feel more at ease in a community in which she too is a member.” De Kock told Sanef the reporter was covering a protest march, along the N2 in Plettenberg Bay, by a large group of locals that clashed with foreigners on 1 September, when she was accosted. “They pushed her around and demanded she deletes the footage she had taken. They threatened to break her phone. She was shaken by the incident and we told her to leave the scene,” De Kock said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Belinda Pheto at TimesLive
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