Media company Arena Holdings says it has no reason to question the integrity of its senior editor, Makhudu Sefara, amid a call for an investigation into his editorial conduct in his previous post.
Sefara, an editor at TimesLIVE, one of the publications in the Arena Holdings stable, is the former editor of Sunday World. report on allegations of a lucrative partnership between Sunday World and the National Lotteries Commission .
It reported, however, the trend of alleged misrepresentations of NLC press statements as"good" news stories, among other attempts to counter exposés on alleged corruption against the commission, became noticeable during Sefara's tenure as editor in 2019. The NLC's ad expenditure on Sunday World came to light during a Q&A in Parliament in November last year.
The GroundUp article didn't link any specific incident to Sefara, though it did raise questions about reportage during his tenure and the early months of his successor Wally Mbhele's term in the editor-in-chief's office. He said Arena Holdings and the SA National Editors Forum , needed to investigate the allegations and take necessary action.
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