Former public protector Thuli Madonsela will not be able to give evidence before parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the SABC board, as she will be travelling during the hearing dates. The committee met for the first time
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Eight SABC journalists who filed an urgent application to the constitutional court to have their charges declared unlawful, have said their positions at the broadcaster have become “simply intolerable”. The journalists, dubbed the
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has vowed to “deal with” any employee disloyal to the public broadcaster. This would be carried out through “Operation Clean Up”, he told reporters at the SABC’s headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi will attend a meeting at Luthuli House on Monday where she is expected to be told to take action against the SABC board, ANC communications sub-committee member Jackson Mthembu told the Sunday Times. Muthambi is part of the committee
The SABC on Sunday refused to confirm the veracity of a union report that the disciplinary hearings of suspended news journalists have been suspended – some indefinitely. “We do not comment on
The SABC staggers from one crisis to the next. It has been politically contested from apartheid days, used by ruling parties as a valuable propaganda tool since its formation in 1936. The broadcaster has been extremely contentious in recent years
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
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
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has scoffed at suggestions that the public broadcaster is engaging in censorship, saying censorship is an English concept, so he “doesn’t know it”. Speaking at a media briefing at the SABC’s Johannesburg head office