City Press and News24 unreservedly apologise to Professor Chris Malikane in particular and to the public in general, for misleadingly and unfairly – but unintentionally – creating the impression in a story published on April 29 that he favoured the option of taking up arms to solve South Africa’s land reform issues.



In that story we erroneously put the words “[take up arms]” in brackets as if those were his words, instead of stating that he was responding to a question from the floor. After a complaint was lodged the Press Ombudsman found that this misrepresented Malikane’s comment by creating the impression that he favoured the taking up of arms. We regret the error.

