Following protests outside the SABC’s offices in KZN, the Right2Know campaign called on South Africans to “stand up and claim the public broadcaster as their own.”
The national broadcaster’s supreme leader has vowed to show more local royal families and events as part of his good news censorship drive.
So the Gupta-linked Oakbay approves of Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s recent move to ban the broadcast of violent protests in SA on the news…
They’ve targeted everyone from presidents to the Islamic State, but it’s the SABC that now finds itself at the mercy of the Anonymous hacktivists.
The Democratic Alliance claims to have been informed that SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng now also bans the reading of newspaper headlines on all radio stations that fall under the national broadcaster.
So the national broadcaster’s excuse for censoring the ANC’s political opposition is that it first had to make sure that the official opposition (on all political fronts as well as in parliament) was, in fact, a political party.
So early yesterday morning SAA got a gag order to stop some news outlets like Fin24 and Business Day from publishing a leaked memo from SAA CEO Thuli Mpshe to the board in an attempt to hide certain information from the South African public.