Browsing: Hlaudi Motsoeneng

The Right2Know Campaign, along with several other groups, will picket outside the offices of the SABC in Auckland Park on Wednesday and Thursday. On Monday a number of civil society groups met to discuss upcoming protest plans against

Former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi intends asking the constitutional court to reverse the SABC’s decision to stop showing footage of violent protests. “If [the SABC] hides some images away, if there are instructions to

The Helen Suzman Foundation has launched an urgent court bid to stop the SABC from implementing its decision to censor reporting of protests. The application is against the SABC, its board, chief operating officer

Seven former SABC executives have written to President Jacob Zuma, communications minister Faith Muthambi and SABC chairman Mbulaheni Maguvhe, criticising events at the public broadcaster. The seven include

Former SABC boss Jimi Matthews said that the broadcaster made sure the Economic Freedom Fighters received “limited coverage” at the behest of chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, eNCA reported on

A civil society meeting to co-ordinate further protests against the SABC is scheduled to take place on Monday. The campaign is being organised by the Right2Know (R2K) campaign and the Save our SABC Coalition. Last week

Motorists driving past the SABC office in Sea Point hooted in support for around 100 picketing journalists, shouting: “Hlaudi must go!” Dressed mostly in black, they held up boards stating “Not in our name”, a comment on recent

Journalists are set to picket outside the SABC’s offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town on Friday in solidarity with the public broadcaster’s staff. A message of the intended action was widely circulated by journalists and news

South Africa’s public broadcaster is battling to quell a journalist revolt over censorship of programmes that portrayed the government in a negative light and its ban on screening footage of protesters destroying property because

There is no revolt at the SABC, the public broadcaster’s board chairman Obert Maguvhe said on Tuesday. “The SABC is stable,” he told reporters at its Auckland Park head office, via video link from the SABC’s Polokwane studio. He said he was