EFF condemns media blackout of protest in KZN especially by the SABC
10 July 2021
The EFF condemns the deliberate muting by the South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) of protests across the Kwa-Zulu Natal province yesterday on the 9th of July 2021.
In an act reminiscent of the regime of the incompetent and factional Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the SABC has provided close to no coverage of uprisings in the province despite them being of significant concern to the nation and communities in the province.
The SABC has a mandate as a public broadcaster to ensure it reports all news without bias and comprehensively, to ensure that the nation is informed and can draw its own conclusions on matters that confront our society. The SABC undermines its mandate when it conducts its coverage selectively and raises suspicion that it is assuming a posture similar to captured news entities such as the racist eNCA.
It was the SABC that brought live coverage of the hours leading up to the former President's arrest at Nkandla until the early hours of the morning, yet, when there are popular uprisings related to the same incident, the nation is in the dark and following incidents on social media.