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Gumede guns for Guardian

NEWSWATCH: Robert Gumede has allegedly launched what the Mail & Guardian terms a 'smear campaign' following questions the newspaper's investigative team posed to him on Wednesday night, 3 October 2010, the newspaper reports. Meanwhile, Mail & Guardian is responding and is also, in its turn, unhappy with the SABC, reports CapeTalk567.
Gumede guns for Guardian

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  • Mail & Guardian: Gumede launches smear campaign against M&G... The best form of defence is attack - or so they say - and it looks like a threesome of note as Gumede, M&G and the SABC square up. Have a read of the M&G statement and the Gumede's statement.

  • CapeTalk567: Mail & Guardian defends its investigations... It seems that the national broadcaster called M&G an hour before it broadcast an interview with Gumede - where he repeated allegations that an M&G journalist took a bribe, but according to the SABC's Kaizer Kganyago said 'We might not have put him on camera as he is basically saying." OK, so what does that mean... basically?

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