NATIONAL NEWS - Journalist Pinky Khoabane has gone on the offensive after being named as one of several journalists who allegedly received bribes to make Bosasa look good through writing positive stories about it.
The allegation was made by former Bosasa chief operating officer (COO) Angelo Agrizzi, who said Khoabane, a reporter he named only as Ntuli, and another as Bongs based in the Eastern Cape, were on their payroll.
Agrizzi said he only knew some of them by their aliases. “Ntuli” worked for either the Times or The Star at the time. Agrizzi did provide the name and surname of Khoabane, as well as Benedicta Dube and Stephen Laufer, who were named as “media consultants”.
Khoabane has since taken to Twitter to provide her version of events.
She intends to cross-examine Agrizzi to clear her name at the commission of inquiry into state capture. She tweeted that she had never met with Angelo Agrizzi but this was quickly questioned by constitutional lawyer Pierre de Vos, who highlighted the fact that Agrizzi never stated he met with Khoabane, only that she received bribes.
“Maybe I missed it, but there was no claim that Agrizzi met you. [The] claim was that Bosasa paid you via [a] middleman. So this tweet is denying what was not alleged and failing to deny that which was alleged. Maybe an oversight?”
She replied by stating that she would listen to the testimony.
Read more on the Caxton publication, The Citizen.
Read a previous article here: Angelo Agrizzi names journalists allegedly bribed by Bosasa.
