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Siya Khumalo | Lindsay Dentlinger saga: Was eNCA a little too quick to presume innocence?

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Reporter Lindsay Dentlinger was conducting interview during the Budget Speech at the time of the incident. (Lubabalo Lesolle/Gallo Images)
Reporter Lindsay Dentlinger was conducting interview during the Budget Speech at the time of the incident. (Lubabalo Lesolle/Gallo Images)

Siya Khumalo asks: What more could Lindsay Dentlinger have done for her actions to be termed biased?  Does our national budget revolve around allocating the presumption of innocence to some people?

The details of how eNCA's Lindsay Dentlinger attracted the "racist" label are described and analysed dispassionately by Eusebius McKaiser and reflected on impassionately by comedienne Sis' Thenjiwe.

The widespread refusal, in some quarters, to deeply engage the possibility that her actions were discriminatory, says something about the work that:

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