Paper ordered to apologise to Biff

Cape Town - The South African Press Ombudsman ruled on Friday 8 May that the Sunday Times must apologise to former South African cricket captain Graeme Smith, following its headline story in the weekend newspaper on 8 March 2015. 

The Sunday Times had stated as fact in its headlines, in the Twitter feed and in its column ‘Mampara of the Week’ that Smith had advised his wife via SMS that he was getting a divorce, that he lied to her and that he had a ‘secret divorce plan’. 

Smith, via his sports lawyer David Becker, had filed a complaint with the Press Ombudsman, Johan Retief.