for apology to Muji Mngadi

In “Holy cow! — R100m scandal points to Jacob Zuma stocking his kraals for years with cattle bought for poor farmers” (August 5), we failed to give Muji Mngadi a right of reply to the allegation that some cattle meant for the poor were diverted to him — insinuating that he had unduly benefited from that. Press ombudsman Johan Retief found there was a real possibility that the story had unnecessarily tarnished his reputation.

We apologise to Mr Mngadi, who has since told us: “I have never received cattle from the OR Tambo district municipality.”

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