Ramaphosa calls fair reporting from all media publications

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Cape Town — President Cyril Ramaphosa has received mixed responses to his latest campaign trail after he shared his excitement over the number of supporters who showed their support, while also calling for all media publications to report fairly.

Ramaphosa was speaking in Bloemfontein, Free State, and he was told that that the community of Botshabelo are huge supporters of the African National Congress (ANC), The Citizen reported.

“I am grateful to see so many of you. I was told that this is the home of the ANC. They said ANC sleeps here, wakes up here, walks, runs and plays here – it does all these things here,” said the president.

“Here in Botshabelo the ANC has enormous support and we have no doubt that our returns here in the elections are going to be quite huge and substantial. It is wonderful to be here,” he added.

Ramaphosa also called on media publications to be fair and unbiased in their reporting, as he said most media publications fixate on negative reporting, and often ignore the good that has been done.

While the president does endorse media freedom, however, he simultaneously “yearns” for the media to report on both the good and the bad and called for balanced reporting.

“I would like for the media to look at balanced reporting. Quite often and many people can testify to this. There is always the darker side that the media focuses on and not the brighter side. Our story as South Africa is a mixture of both good and not so good,” he said.

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