You defy Icasa ruling at your own peril, Mantashe warns SABC
12 July 2016
Johannesburg - ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has warned the SABC not to ignore the Independent Communications Authority of SA’s ruling, because "if you defy the decision of [a Chapter 9] institution, you will learn hard".
Mantashe chuckled as he said this, but did not refer to the Constitutional Court ruling on President Jacob Zuma’s failure to comply with a Public Protector report on Nkandla.
Addressing journalists in Luthuli House on Tuesday, following an ANC national working committee the day before, Mantashe hit out at SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, without mentioning his name, saying that defiance didn’t make the public broadcaster better.
"The SABC remaining defiant, you know this term defiance, [getting] self-satisfaction in defiance…