The SACP says:“Reinstate Vuyo Mvoko, the Last Man standing and kept outside of the SABC!”
28 July 2016
One of the SABC 8 is not yet reinstated. The South African Communist Party campaign continues.
We, the SACP, have stuck to our vow to continue campaigning until all the SABC 8 are reinstated. We have staged protests and pickets regularly at the SABC’s headquarters and at most of its regional offices, and we have voiced our support and backing for the eight and their colleagues at the SABC, urging the workers to resist Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s illegal and anti-democratic attempts to deny the South African people accurate information in news reporting because of his censorship decree.
Legal action has compelled Motsoeneng, who illegally occupies the SABC post of Chief Operations Officer – and being vastly overpaid for so doing, to reinstate seven of the SABC 8.
The SABC 8 had the courage to stand up to Motsoeneng when he illegally sought to censor SABC TV news reports on violent protests. They fought their suspensions and dismissals and, in an unprecedented move, won the support last Friday of hundreds of SABC journalists, who wore black to demonstrate their opposition to Motsoeneng’s illegal, apartheid-style censorship.