The video snippet of the chairperson of the finance portfolio committee falling off his broken chair in a live interview on SABC 2 on Tuesday has spread like wildfire. It was even featured on PerezHilton.com, the celebrity blog, which means that gazillions of people have seen it all over the world!
The quality of SABC’s comic [...]
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October 25, 2008
The downfall of the SABC
October 1, 2008
New Shilowa party: false dawn or news blackout?
An SABC news report, heard on radio yesterday, revealing that Mbazhima Shilowa had launched a new breakaway party has not been confirmed or reported elsewhere. No mention is made of the news on the SABC website either.
Was this a case of “creative newsmaking” or has the development happened but been purposefully hushed up?
Only time will [...]
September 30, 2008
ANC splits?
In a blow to Kgalema Motlanthe’s attempts to unify the ANC, Mbazhima Shilowa — who yesterday resigned as Gauteng’s premier — is to launch a breakaway political party in Klipfontein, Soweto.
This is according to a breaking news report from 5fm, an SABC radio station.
The SABC News wesbite is currently down so I have been unable [...]
May 9, 2008
SABC – from public service to propaganda
In Friday’s Business Day, Charles Leonard, the paper’s news editor and a former SABC journo, has a must-read article on the post-Madiba decline of the SABCÂ at the hands of Commisar Snuki and his coterie of Mbeki-loyalists who hijacked the public broadcaster and turned it into a ruling party mouthpiece.
Click here to read the story.
