South Africa: Iqbal Survé’s media must apologise to journalist Karyn Maughan and delete Nazi slur column, Press Council finds

The Press Council has ordered Iqbal Survé’s Sunday Independent newspaper and other platforms which published a column by mystery writer Edmond Phiri to apologise and take down the column, which compared journalist Karyn Maughan to Nazi film propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.   

The column, published in March 2024, sent shockwaves through the media fraternity and wider public as it launched a long-range attack on Maughan for a report on a court case in which Survé was involved.  She was…