The attacks on Karima Brown started on Tuesday night after EFF leader Julius Malema posted Brown's contact number on his Twitter timeline
"We call on the EFF leadership to stop with this vicious attack on the media and allow journalists to do their work without fear and intimidation. The attacks on women in media in particular and the abuse levelled against them is contrary to the spirit of wanting to protect women in a country where violence against women has reached pandemic levels."
Malema told TimesLIVE he would not apologise because Brown"is not a journalist, she is not an editor and she is not an assignment editor"."The questions in her message were crafted in such a way that they are suspicious and that is how intelligence operatives write. That is why we had to raise the alarm."
Malema said he"exposed" Brown because he believed she was putting the lives of elderly people in danger by asking for details of how they were selected to be part of the breakfast.She also said she would not be intimidated by Malema. "For our freedom and the freedom of the media in this country. Today it's me. Tomorrow it's you. It won't stop. If I crumble, the entire profession is at risk," she said.READ MORE:
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