THE Daily Dispatch reported on the front page yesterday that Education Department chief director Zoleka Makina had been suspended on charges of non-performance. This is not correct. The chief director who is facing charges for non-performance is Nosipho Skenjana. Makina resigned from the department to join the Department of Agriculture. We regret the error and [...]
IN court yesterday the Daily Star apologised to Garry Tweedy for an article published on April 13 in which we incorrectly reported that Mr Tweedy had admitted on his Facebook profile that he had been to prison a few times. We accepted that Mr Tweedy did not post this comment, nor has he ever been [...]
In our edition of July 3, we published an article that referred to a court case in 2004 that has become known as the Annabel’s Trial. The article made factual assertions about Brooke McVeagh in connection with that trial and the circumstances giving rise to the trial.We accept that these factual assertions were based on [...]
In 2010, The Press published two articles that concerned Mr Clive Cousins, a Christchurch lawyer. They implied that Mr Cousins was professionally negligent in the preparation of a property mortgage. The Press accepts that this was not correct, that Mr Cousins had no involvement in the preparation of the documents, and unreservedly apologises to Mr [...]
The Telegraph report on Saturday on Sai Baba’s assets had erroneously mentioned that industrialist Ratan Tata had made an unannounced visit to the Puttaparthi ashram. Tata’s trip to the ashram was planned several weeks ago. He did not fly into Bangalore nor was he in a Mercedes as the report said. He landed in Puttaparthi [...]
Our article "London's 'Mr Party' defies court to carry on carousing" of 19 December 2010 stated that Mr Edward Davenport has hired out his house on at least one occasion since an injunction forbidding such use of the premises was enforced in July. We accept that it is untrue that Mr Edward Davenport has hired [...]
In an article published on this website on 27 December 2009 until 15 January 2010, entitled “Jet bomb ordered by 9/11 spiritual leaderâ€, we incorrectly described the charity Interpal as “Hamas-supportingâ€. As such the article would have wrongly been understood to mean that Interpal and its trustees provided support for Hamas notwithstanding that Hamas is [...]
In this year’s FP500 issue of the Financial Post Magazine, The Independent Order of Foresters was incorrectly identified as one of the five worst-performing companies, in terms of declining annual revenue, among Canada’s 500 largest corporations. In fact, The Independent Order of Foresters’ 2009 revenues substantially increased from 2008 to 2009. The Financial Post Magazine [...]
LAST week, to accompany an article about Ashley Cole cheating on Cheryl with Vicki Gough, 30, we mistakenly pictured Vicky Gough, 19 (above). We wish to make clear that the Ms Gough we pictured has no connection whatsoever with Ashley Cole and offer our sincere apologies for any distress and embarrassment caused to her. Link [...]
On 22 October 2005, the New Zealand Herald published in its print edition and online an article titled “Dangerous Liaisions with Clients”. Some readers may have understood the article to have conveyed that Mr Defteros is a member of Melbourne’s criminal underworld and that he is unfit to be a solicitor. The New Zealand Herald [...]
