SABC employees are desperate to leave the Communication Workers Union (CWU), former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Wednesday. He had received calls from SABC employees wanting
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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
The complaints and compliance committee of communications regulator Icasa has ordered that the SABC withdraw the resolution that it will no longer broadcast footage of violent protests. Icasa has said that SABC chairman Obert Maguhve must confirm
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
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
No empirical evidence was used to back up the SABC’s decision to ban coverage of violent protests, an Independent Communications Authority of South Africa public hearing was told on Friday. “Is there any evidence that would
Despite a supreme court of appeal judgment on Tuesday, which set aside a 2015 amendment to South Africa’s broadcasting migration policy, the communications minister, Faith Muthambi, has vowed to press on with the digital terrestrial television migration
E.tv has won the latest battle in the long-running war over digital terrestrial television in South Africa, potentially throwing the long-delayed project off-track once again. The supreme court
Organisations challenging the new Broadcasting Amendment Bill, promised to go as far as the constitutional court if need be. The bill, proposed by communications minister Faith Muthambi
The Competition Tribunal heard on Wednesday that pay-television operator MultiChoice took control of valuable assets of the SABC and influenced a key SABC policy materially, through an agreement that only became public after somebody leaked it. Steven Budlender SC