“The SABC 8 has learnt with dismay and disgust, the attempts to associate us with the Bosasa affair,” the remaining journalists said in a statement.
The statement is in response to a report by Times Live late on Tuesday stating that Bosasa allegedly donated R100,000 toward a crowdfunding campaign to assist the SABC 8 journalists in 2016.
This reportedly emerged in an email in which a senior Bosasa official instructs other officials to make the payment.
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