Commentators slam Jacqueline

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Chairperson of the Editors Forum, Spencer Mogapi, has reacted strongly to the latest charges of misconduct against The Sunday Standard newspaper and suggestions that two of its journalists should be barred from practicing.

Mogapi says that the demand by the President Ian Khama's sister, Jacqueline, that editor, Outsa Mokone, and a reporter, Rueben Pitse, be barred from practicing as journalist, is a clear indication that the Media Practitioner's Act was passed to target journalists.

"This goes to prove that the Act was targeted at journalists," he said
Mogapi, also co-owner of The Sunday Standard, said that in its first ever case, the complaints committee was seized with deciding a matter involving a plea to disbar journalists.

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