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5FM broadcasts Malema’s racist rants… as “music”

Driving home from the airport early this morning, I thought I had gone back to sleep and was dreaming when, from the interminable “mix” concocted by 5FM’s DJ Euphonic, I heard the voice of Julius Malema. A recording of the … Continue reading

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The downfall of the SABC

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 SABC at the hands of Commisar Snuki and his coterie of Mbeki-loyalists who hijacked the public … Continue reading

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