THE SACP wants Hlaudi Motsoeneng to get out – and they want him out of the SABC building within seven days.
Not only do they want the chief operations officer to be removed, they want the immediate reinstatement of the corporation’s suspended journalists and the reversal of editorial policy changes.
Yesterday the SACP in Gauteng – joined by the Save Our SABC Coalition and the Media Transformation Task Team – picketed outside the public broadcaster’s offices in Auckland Park to hand over a memorandum of demands.
SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila said the SABC board had failed to hold the management of the public broadcaster accountable and must be dismissed.
“The SABC belongs to all the people of South Africa,” said Mapaila. He said the SABC’s policies must be a reflection of the will of the people.
The SACP said they also welcomed the action taken by the ANC regarding censorship at the public broadcaster.
The SACP was expected to hand a memorandum over to the SABC but they were told nobody from the public broadcaster would accept it.
- There was a serious confrontation when Motsoeneng’s supporters arrived and distracted the SACP’s picketing.
Police had to keep the rival factions apart.
Motsoeneng’s supporters were members of and artists from various organisations. They said they were in favour of Motsoeneng’s transformation of the SABC.
