BEF pleads with editors, journalists for excellence
Friday, May 12, 2023 | 150 Views |
Mogapi PIC: BEF
Mogapi was speaking at an event to celebrate 20-year anniversary of BEFand also to honour him as the outgoing chairperson, at Arirang Restaurant, located at Staybridge Hotels and Lodging.
He started off by making a plea to journalists to ensure that they do follow-ups. Mogapi shared that a friend who is not in any way involved with journalism, shared that while journalists do good stories, their shortcoming is that they do not do follow-ups to their great stories.
Whilst many citizens put trust in their leaders that they are tackling one of the worst curses that can befall a country, the public has lost trust after all the cases seemed not to go anywhere.As the saying goes, ‘corruption is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of society’; corruption affects effective governance.Corruption affects delivery of services to the public and also crumbles most systems meant to assist citizens who are very...