Correction: Alex FM Board court judgement
ALEXANDRA – Alex News apologises to Alex FM on issues around the court ruling on the board of directors of the station.
On July 20, 2018, Alex News published an article titled Court declares AlexFM Board Delinquent on page 4 of the newspaper. An online copy of the article was subsequently published onto www.alexnews.co.za titled Another spectacular embarrassment for Alex FM board of directors.
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According to the reportage, the South Gauteng High Court had declared the board of the Alexandra FM delinquent. This was not the case – only three members of the board had been declared delinquent and were placed on probation, being Pamela Mallela, Gideon Makatu and Bongane Mandita.
The Alex News apologises for this error and the inconvenience it may have caused, as well as for its failure to gain comment from those implicated in its reportage. Alex News has since been informed that the circumstances under which the judgment was granted has been placed in dispute by Malella, Makatu and Mandita. They deny having been served with a summons and, accordingly, acknowledge that they had to be in court. They intend to challenge the judgment accordingly.
