HOW THE CON ARTISTS TRIED TO CLEAR THEIR NAME
FOLLOWING a recent article published by the Sunday Times of London which was defamatory, full of inaccuracies, unsubstantiated accusations and innuendo about a former South African who has sold paintings by an apparently “fake” South African artist to well-known British collections, International Collectors and via Auction Houses, evidence has reached the Paarl Post that the female artist, poet and Anti Apartheid Activist, Helen Anne Petrie (1932-2006), had indeed mainly lived and worked in Fish Hoek, South Africa. There are places for biased information in newspapers ? they’re called the opinion pages and advertisements. For those concerned with journalistic integrity, the increasingly blurry line between the business interests of newspapers and their editorial decisions is disturbing. When Continue reading