ON MARCH 22 2012 we published an article by Sifiso Moshoetsi, of the Presidency, with the headline "Zuma is a gift to mankind".
The headline was not in quotation marks.
On the front page of the same edition, we inserted a puff with the words "Zuma is a gift to mankind", in quotation marks and attributed it to the Presidency.
In the article Moshoetsi, communications research chief director in the Presidency, had written thus: "Amongst the utterances in his tirade, we are told by (Prince) Mashele that President Zuma is less of a leader solely on the basis that he is uneducated. What a shallow and narrow analysis! We will not start counting the many outstanding leaders in the history of our struggle who have in their lifetimes been a gift to mankind."
The Presidency has pointed out it was unwarranted to attribute the puff to it as it never said so verbatim. We regret the error.
Sorry about Zuma headline
ON MARCH 22 2012 we published an article by Sifiso Moshoetsi, of the Presidency, with the headline "Zuma is a gift to mankind".
The headline was not in quotation marks.
On the front page of the same edition, we inserted a puff with the words "Zuma is a gift to mankind", in quotation marks and attributed it to the Presidency.
In the article Moshoetsi, communications research chief director in the Presidency, had written thus: "Amongst the utterances in his tirade, we are told by (Prince) Mashele that President Zuma is less of a leader solely on the basis that he is uneducated. What a shallow and narrow analysis! We will not start counting the many outstanding leaders in the history of our struggle who have in their lifetimes been a gift to mankind."
The Presidency has pointed out it was unwarranted to attribute the puff to it as it never said so verbatim. We regret the error.
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