R2K continues protests against political capture of the SABC!
22 August 2016
The Right2Know Campaign will picket tomorrow in Cape Town and Pretoria to coincide with a meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Communications.
Our main demand is that Parliament must urgently reconstitute the board through an open public process, similar to the appointment of the Public Protector.
We continue to call for the removal of Communications Minister, Faith Muthambi and Hlaudi Motsoeneng, whose permanent appointment as the SABC COO was ruled as ‘unlawful and irrational’ by the High Court last year.
Parliament has been complicit in the decay at the SABC. The committee has failed to fill board vacancies dating as far back as two years, neglecting their duties in terms of the Broadcasting Act and leaving us with an inquorate board of lapdogs who rubber stamp all of Hlaudi and the executive's reckless decisions.