R2K calls for Public Protector & Parliament to probe MultiChoice ‘kickbacks’
30 November 2017
The Right2Know Campaign is deeply worried by recent media revelations of suspect correspondence between, and dodgy payments from, MultiChoice to SABC and ANN7.
R2K intends to lodge a complaint with the Public Protector and has written to Parliament’s Communications Committee to launch an inquiry.
It is insinuated that these payments from MultiChoice to Gupta-linked ANN7 and the SABC were intended as kickbacks to influence government policy on encryption of digital terrestrial television signals. At the centre of this appears to be Faith Muthambi who then presided over the Department of Communications, and who is alleged to have pursued MultiChoice’s market dominance agenda in concert with various Gupta associates.
This would suggest blatant corruption on the part of Multichoice and Faith Muthambi to advantage themselves in the disastrous roll-out of Digital TV, which has seriously undermined the public’s right to know.