Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout has poked fun at the ongoing censorship controversy at the SABC, congratulating the broadcaster’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng for keeping the news “nice and comfortable”.
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The ruling party has had enough of the SABC board’s shenanigans; with the ANC’s Jackson Mthembu saying that the broadcaster keeps “moving from one crisis to another,” hinting at possible changes in senior management.
Last night’s episode of The Stream on Al Jazeera unpacked the SABC’s recent decision to stop airing video of violent protests and the subsequent debate this has sparked over media censorship in South Africa.
Looks like the ruling party is having trouble keeping its subsidiaries in check, especially since the mother-party spoke out strongly against censorship and what’s going on at the SABC.
The forum which represents over 18 000 publications in 120 countries has strongly condemned recent happenings at the SABC.
Looks like the ruling party’s done a u-turn on its support for the national broadcaster’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and the dear leader might soon find himself out in the cold.
Jimi Matthews, whose recent resignation as CEO of the SABC on account of his principles, has said that the broadcaster’s COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng gave specific instructions to throttle the EFF’s exposure wherever possible.
Journo’s at the national broadcaster’s head office have been locked in the building in an attempt to stop them from joining a protest against the SABC outside the building.
Now, it’s not a national talking point until it’s been given the Nando’s treatment is it?
Guys, we’ve been getting the SABC crisis ALL wrong.
While the rest of the country hailed Matthews’ resignation as a victory for transparency and independence, ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa once again misjudged the environment and went in the opposite direction.
Mmusi Maimane has laid the blame of the hot mess that is the SABC squarely at the feet of president Jacob Zuma.
South Africans have slowly run out of patience for Hlaudi Motsoeneg and the national broadcaster’s antics, and Jimi Matthews’ resignation earlier today was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Somebody in a position of power at the public broadcaster has finally taken a stand against the SABC’s censorship.
Ey, Dear Leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng seems to be building himself quite the reputation.
So the national broadcaster believes that showing what’s going on in SA a.k.a telling the truth, will hurt the country’s ‘brand image’.
While the national broadcaster is tight-lipped about the exact circumstances around the suspension of three employees, but all of them were served their papers shortly after speaking out against the SABC’s new censorship laws.
The national broadcaster’s dear leader doesn’t believe in competition and adds that employees from the country’s other broadcasters are, in fact, coming to work for the SABC.
Yeah that’s right folks… the national broadcaster is being shown the ropes by a nation that has censored everything from Google to Facebook and who executes civilians for speaking out against the state…
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.
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.