PAUL HOFFMAN: Lying Mantashe should quit over Sunday World fraud

“Fraud is the unlawful and intentional making of a misrepresentation which causes actual prejudice or which is potentially prejudicial to another.”

First, he involves himself in an extramarital escapade that could be triangular or quadrangular . Then, he tells the editor of Sunday World he has paid bribes of R70,000 to two of his journalists to hush up the story. Thereafter, he denies having said so. Finally, when confronted with an audio recording that gives the lie to his denial of having said so, he retracts the bribery allegations made by him, admitting they are false.

That lie was made in circumstances in which Mantashe was cornered, and its subsequent retraction does nothing to exonerate him from the consequences of trying to fib his way out of a tight corner. Consider the activities of the Satchwell panel investigating journalistic ethics and the malpractice involved in “brown-envelope journalism” made famous by the shady activities of Ebrahim Rasool and others.

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