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The Ashwin Willemse TV walkout debacle
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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 903620" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>Taking away the background chatter and tangents that surround such matters the bottom line for me is that Willemse brought his companies' sports coverage into disrepute in a very public manner. </p><p></p><p>Even being hypothetical and working on the speculative assumption that he had a legitimate beef, that is no excuse for doing this publicly. </p><p></p><p>The company is headed by a black male and there are no grounds for suspecting that anything that may have been bubbling away could not have been dealt with privately in an even-handed manner. </p><p></p><p>For me the only logical outcome is that there is an internal investigation and irrespective of the outcome of that investigation Willemse is kindly asked to leave for his lack of professionalism in this instance. </p><p></p><p>And yes, those quoted remarks from the sports minister are pathetic - but par for the course in this modern age of politics where logic and evidence counts for little and where baseless slander is backed up by elements of an incredibly partisan media chasing online advertising revenue. </p><p></p><p>The minister even let slip the Q word. Oops! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 903620, member: 74121"] Taking away the background chatter and tangents that surround such matters the bottom line for me is that Willemse brought his companies' sports coverage into disrepute in a very public manner. Even being hypothetical and working on the speculative assumption that he had a legitimate beef, that is no excuse for doing this publicly. The company is headed by a black male and there are no grounds for suspecting that anything that may have been bubbling away could not have been dealt with privately in an even-handed manner. For me the only logical outcome is that there is an internal investigation and irrespective of the outcome of that investigation Willemse is kindly asked to leave for his lack of professionalism in this instance. And yes, those quoted remarks from the sports minister are pathetic - but par for the course in this modern age of politics where logic and evidence counts for little and where baseless slander is backed up by elements of an incredibly partisan media chasing online advertising revenue. The minister even let slip the Q word. Oops! :p [/QUOTE]
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