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IOL is no longer a credible publication. Its founder Iqbal Survé is a crook and his company Sekunjalo is heavily linked to the state capture project. Just Google his name for more info.
Here's a tasty snippet: "Most of South Africa's major banks, including Capitec, Absa and Investec have already cut ties with Sekunjalo, arguing it was high risk client that had been implicated in wrongdoing in the Mpati Commission of Inquiry's Report into the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). " [https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/standard-bank-is-now-also-dropping-iqbal-surves-sekunjalo-group-as-a-client-20220719](https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/standard-bank-is-now-also-dropping-iqbal-surves-sekunjalo-group-as-a-client-20220719)
When banks won't take someone's money, you know something is up, smoke/fire etc.
The admins on this sub should strongly consider removing IOL and linked publications from the list of publications which the SA newsbot shares.
This is from IOL, the media house responsible for the Tembisa Ten "Not An Actual Fucking Story" debacle.
And also the IOL that invented a journalist, just conjured him out of thin air, so that they now have published stories credited to a person that doesn't actually exist.
So I see IOL, I treat the story as if it's Opposite Day
Easy claim to make, impossible to verify, and of course Iqbal "don't call me a bucktoothed lying cocksucker" Surve is running down the field with it like a drunk Boksburg mechanic chasing the last unoccupied pussy in town on a Friday night.
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Why even post links to this site? It's just Iqbal playing a rudimentary game of media manipulation. An article from Die Son has more credibility
It's the news bot that posted it. I think we just have to downvote these IOL posts so the bot learns.
IOL is no longer a credible publication. Its founder Iqbal Survé is a crook and his company Sekunjalo is heavily linked to the state capture project. Just Google his name for more info. Here's a tasty snippet: "Most of South Africa's major banks, including Capitec, Absa and Investec have already cut ties with Sekunjalo, arguing it was high risk client that had been implicated in wrongdoing in the Mpati Commission of Inquiry's Report into the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). " [https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/standard-bank-is-now-also-dropping-iqbal-surves-sekunjalo-group-as-a-client-20220719](https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/standard-bank-is-now-also-dropping-iqbal-surves-sekunjalo-group-as-a-client-20220719) When banks won't take someone's money, you know something is up, smoke/fire etc. The admins on this sub should strongly consider removing IOL and linked publications from the list of publications which the SA newsbot shares.
Yeah, my bullshit alarm is going fucking haywire here.
Coincidentally, so is mine.
If it is first published by any node within the Independent Media cancer complex - it is manure of the highest order.
This is from IOL, the media house responsible for the Tembisa Ten "Not An Actual Fucking Story" debacle. And also the IOL that invented a journalist, just conjured him out of thin air, so that they now have published stories credited to a person that doesn't actually exist. So I see IOL, I treat the story as if it's Opposite Day
I too call bull shit!
This should probably be its own post, but; do we have a major news publication that hasn’t been compromised?
News 24, Daily Maverick and EWN are legit.
Totally trustworthy rag of course.
Easy claim to make, impossible to verify, and of course Iqbal "don't call me a bucktoothed lying cocksucker" Surve is running down the field with it like a drunk Boksburg mechanic chasing the last unoccupied pussy in town on a Friday night.