Darren Scott, Anthony Duke and Sondag

[James]

Sondag newspaper was sanctioned by Press Ombudsman Johan Retief on Monday about a news story it published about former television presenter Darren Scott.

The article was published on June 2 with the headline "Ex-Friend claiming R4.3 million loss", and was largely based on comments by Anthony Duke.

Parts of the story related to a case pending in the High Court in Cape Town between Scott and Duke.

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[McT]

Sondag was also given a "space fine", meaning the newspaper had to publish the full Press Code on page six and not allow any other text on that page.

Interesting way of fining the Paper. I haven't heard of that before, but I reckon it'll hurt their income and ego a bit.