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/ 27 January 2008
”How Pahad censored Roberts” (January 11) is a headline at war with its facts. As with my Gordimer biography, I invited comments, accepting the helpful and rejecting the rest. ”I may say at this point, before dealing with other matters, that you also surely must have seen how your book has lost nothing in the cuts made,” Gordimer wrote on March 5 2003. That is not censorship.
Cape Town lawyer Christine Qunta on Monday welcomed the Sunday Times‘s retraction of defamatory statements made by the newspaper against her, saying the apology was proof that the principle of media accountability was being upheld.