With the recent race row involving Penny Sparrow reigniting the debate around how far South Africa has come, eNCA anchor, Andrew Barnes is now drawing criticism on social media.
This follows him mocking Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga's pronounciation of the English word, 'epitome.'
Follwing a link on today's edition of eNCA's News Day, Barnes commented, "Someone should have a word with the basic education minister on how to pronounce eptiome." [Ironically, Barnes does not pronounce the Minister's surname correctly]
Since then, the uproar has continued to grow on social media, with 'Andrew Barnes' currently peaking at number 3 on social network, Twitter.
In response to the uproar, Barnes tweeted, "My heartfelt apologies for the hurtful comment I made about the Education Minister's English today.You all expect more of me. I'm Sorry."
With eNCA's movement to the online realm, covering Twitter happenings on air quite often these days, many users of the site are patiently waiting for the channel to cover this story, which would meet the channel's criteria for on air coverage had it been someone else, yet no coverage yet.
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