News24 should also apologise to Commission for defending Johnson

The Clement Manyathela Show · Aug 4, 2026 · 8m

In his comment, Clement Manyathela argues that News24's admission, via editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson's opinion piece, that it wasn't hard enough on Andrea Johnson and IDAC doesn't go far enough. He says the real problem wasn't insufficient scrutiny but a deliberate, premeditated decision by News24's senior editors to ignore overwhelming evidence against Johnson, pointing to opinion pieces like Pieter du Toit's "The Crucifixion of Andrea Johnson," which he says unfairly likened the commissioners' conduct to a witch hunt despite their professionalism. Clement Manyathela starts his show each…