IN A RECENT interview with JJ Tabane, IOL chairman Iqbal Survé claimed that his company had been cleared by its own internal Ombudsperson. In essence Piet Rampedi's Decuplets story was both misleading and true at the same time, necessitating a man-hunt for 10 non-existent babies and their missing...

LAST WEEK JJ Tabane provided the owner of Independent Media, one Iqbal Survé, with airtime to tackle a column written by Anton Harber essentially calling for an advertising boycott of the group. The two have been at loggerheads since the publication of a now discredited multi-baby "decuplets" sto...

KANYE WEST is certainly never one to avoid controversy, but over the past weeks, his pronouncements on social media have been called out for being nothing more than vulgar anti-Semitism. The result was the cancellation of lucrative contracts with sports brand Adidas, the shelving of an unreleased...

NO SOONER had 'investigative reporter' Sizwe Dlamini, of the Independent Group's self-styled 'falcons' investigation team, erroneously claimed that he had exposed Branko Birkic's Daily Maverick, for being, (wait for it), a 'newspaper with subscribers', the conspiracy theorist was railing against...

THE EDITOR of an 'elite investigative unit' , housed deep inside Independent Media, the so-named Falcons claims to have uncovered evidence linking the Daily Maverick to Jackie Selebi and the underworld. A report emanating from Paul O'Sullivan's 'Forensics for Justice' (FFJ) used to back the piece...

INDEPENDENT MEDIA has sought to reframe its fraudulent 'decuplet scoop', within a narrative of human trafficking. Not only is the health department pursuing charges, but the latest attempt to insert authority into the storyline by gaining a nomination for its own 'miniseries' on the subject, whic...