Minister Gwede Mantashe's alleged bribery payment to journalists a serious worry-SANEF

SAfm — The South African National Editors Forum - SANEF - has implored Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe to reveal the names of the journalists he says he paid to make a story about an alleged relationship with a young woman disappear. In a story carried by Sunday World newspaper YESTRDAY, Mantashe, when contacted by the paper to comment on allegations that he was involved in an affair with a young student in Johannesburg, he allegedly said he paid R70 000 for the story not to be published and he was not going to pay more money on the same story