MICHAEL WALSH EXCLUSIVE: During South Africa’s benign and prosperous era of Ethnic Separate Development (apartheid (apartness)), BBC and ITV journalists were constantly caught setting up stories to dupe British viewers.

A common trick employed by TV crews was to toss loose coins into trash bins.

African kids, typical of all children, would scramble in the bins to recover the coins. This activity was filmed, and the footage was later captioned or narrated accordingly:

‘In Apartheid South Africa, the Whites live well whilst African children feed from rubbish bins.’

A reader writes: “My late brother lived in England and said that they (British TV) would show the black children being held in concentration camps on TV.

“But the pictures were of the children from Khayalitsha standing at the fence of the airport watching planes taking off. So much for believing all you see.”

On one occasion, a BBC team in White South Africa was cautioned. The team had superimposed images of South African Army tanks and armoured cars as a backdrop to a peaceful European park scene.

The caption read, ‘Whites relax but only when protected by their Apartheid army.’

FOOTNOTE: ‘When Michael Wharton, then a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) producer and later satirical writer for the Daily Telegraph (Peter Simple), saw some members of a BBC TV camera crew sobbing, he asked them why they were crying.

They replied, ‘Joe Stalin has died’. Wharton replied, ‘It’s a pity he was ever born!’ They never spoke to him again.’ TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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