{"id":108257,"date":"2016-01-07T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=108257"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T08:58:50","slug":"watch-sa-news-anchor-mocks-education-ministers-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/108257\/watch-sa-news-anchor-mocks-education-ministers-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: SA news anchor mocks education minister&#8217;s English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eNCA senior anchor Andrew Barnes has come under fire for mocking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga&#8217;s pronunciation of English words, live on air.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes made a snide comment after eNCA showed snippets of minister Motshekga&#8217;s matric results speech.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes said: \u201cMaybe someone should have a word with the Basic Education minister about how to pronounce the word \u2018epitome\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The journalist sparked outcry on social media site Twitter. He later used the medium to apologise, from his personal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewTbarnes\" target=\"_blank\">account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My heartfelt apologies for the hurtful comment I made about the Education Minister&#8217;s English today. You all expect more of me. I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fFqvNvW9B9M\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on racism<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/108241\/twitter-death-threats-can-lead-to-criminal-investigations-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter death threats can lead to criminal investigations \u2013 police<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/108019\/white-south-africans-proud-of-their-supremacy-eff\/\">White South Africans proud of their supremacy: EFF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/106627\/racism-is-alive-and-well-in-south-africa\/\">Racism is alive and well in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/91714\/facebook-social-media-racism-on-the-rise\/\">Facebook, social media racism on the rise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eNCA senior anchor Andrew Barnes has come under fire for mocking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga&#8217;s pronunciation of English words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":108187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7472,26],"class_list":["post-108257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-enca","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108263,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257\/revisions\/108263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}