DA member of Parliament, Michael Bagraim, must be the only MP around the globe who has a guaranteed weekly column in a country’s largest newspaper house.
The Honourable Bagraim has served in the National Assembly as a DA member since 2014, and the editors of Independent Newspapers see no obvious conflict of interest.
Ironically, Independent Newspapers, according to their statement, at the time, in 2014, “relieved Donwald Pressly of his responsibilities. He was found to have violated the company’s editorial code of conduct and code of ethics by participating in the electoral college process of a political party.”
Bagraim would have participated in the same application process.
As far as we know, Aishah Cassiem, a former journalist at Independent, upon entering the race to become an EFF councillor, also first…
