E.tv given mediation deadline

By Khanyisa Tabata
25 January 2010

E.tv has until Thursday to make representations to the national director of Public Prosecutions regarding subpoenas issued against two of its journalists.

The case was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court today.

Mediation will now take place after the journalists were subpoenaed for refusing to divulge information about an interview with two men who threatened to attack Soccer World Cup tourists.

Meanwhile the South African National Editors Forum said it was relieved the National Prosecuting Authority agreed to negotiate with ETV over the subpoenas issued to two journalists.