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A staff member of The Citizen newspaper who made comments on Twitter about an altered photograph published in the paper, has been dismissed.
The newspaper says in a statement on its website that a disciplinary hearing under an independent, external chairperson found him guilty on two charges on Thursday.
The employee has been identified in reports as Johann Hatting.
The image in question was that of a suicide attack on a minibus in Kabul, Afghanistan, in which eight South Africans were killed.
At the time, editor Martin Williams said a decision was taken to blur the bodies shown in the photograph as the picture was too gory to publish in its original form.
Instead, the bodies were digitally removed from the image in error.
