Carte Blanche on M-Net is apologising for including and showing a Hindu temple in Mayfair, Johannesburg in a story during last Sunday's show about terrorism in Africa and terrorist groups using South Africa as an entry point in the rest of the continent.
The Hindu temple has no relation to what the Carte Blanche story was about, but the weekly investigative magazine show on M-Net (DStv 101) produced by Combined Artistic Productions included a visual aerial shot of it in the sensintive story about terrorists operating from South Africa.
A week later Carte Blanche is apologising on the air, when anchor Bongani Bingwa said that the show is apologising "unreservedly" for the incorrect use and inclusion of the Hindu temple into the story.
"The context and accompanying music incorrectly alluded to it being a mosque. At no point in the story did we suggest that this temple or any other place of worship in the area is involved or linked to any terrorist activity of any sort," said Bongani Bingwa, Carte Blanche anchor.
"We apologise unreservedly for the incorrect use of the image of the Hindu temple and any offense it may have caused."
