As
FP Takes South Africa Ad Money
To Praise It Questions on
Cameroon Banned Like Press
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos,
Periscope
UN GATE, Dec 18 –
South Africa is leaving the UN
Security Council this month,
after not holding a single
meeting on the slaughter in
Cameroon, after helping
ethno-state Burundi evade
scrutiny, all with the
assistance not only of SABC
but now Foreign Policy, taking
ad money from South Africa.
Photo here.
On December
18 Inner City Press which
covers Cameroon and the UN's
failure on it sought to ask
South Africa's Ambassador /
censor Jerry Matjila for his
side of the story. But FP,
which has remained silent more
than two years on a journalist
being roughed up in the UN and
banned since, curated a
Q&A of questions about
gumbo diplomacy, sh*thole
countries and faux
Afro-Centrism, Inner City
Press stream here.
The Brand
South Africa ad promised pro
South Africa questions from
"Sherwin Bryce-Pease UN BUREAU
CHIEF: SABC NEWS, SOUTH AFRICA....
Colum Lynch... Michelle
Nichols, THOMSON REUTERS and
Amanda Price," Al
Jazeera...
Today's is
totally corrupt, with supposed
watchdogs taking ad money from
those they purport to
interview, and censors from
Reuters and Al Jazeera reading
scripted questions by Zoom.
We'll have more on this.
It's not just
December 2020 - this is from
2019:
With the UN
Security Council presidency
for October 2019 being taken
over by South Africa's Jerry
Matjila, he bragged in his 1
October 2019 press conference
that there would be 40
meetings in the month.
None, though, on
the slaughter in Cameroon. And
Inner City Press which most
asks about that UN failure
remains banned from the UN by
Antonio Guterres. Matjila's
predecessor Mutaboba raised
it; Matjila has not. It was
whispered to him to hand the
third question to his own
state media, after the first
question was by the head of
UNCA just back from a junket
in China, asking about Chinese
power. This is today's UN.
Matjila
mock referred questions to
Marthinus van Schalkwyk; there
is no mechanism to get news of
transparency from this
Mission.
Inner
City Press'
application for
re-accreditation
to enter and
cover the UNSC
stakeout,
submitted on 15
April 2019, was
denied without
explanation on
April 17.
("Greetings
Matthew LEE from
ICP
INNER CITY
PRESS,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M66561081, has
been
declined.")
This was repeated for the UNGA
week, with nothing
from South Africa.
Alamy
photos here.
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