The Black Friday demonstration organised outside the SABC's Auckland Park offices.
The Labour Court has ruled in favour of the so-called #SABC8, ordering that the state broadcaster reinstate the applicants who, represented by Solidarity, took the matter to court. The court also ruled that disciplinary processes against them be dropped.
Four of the eight journalists, who were suspended and sacked by the SABC for opposing its ban on broadcasts of violent protests in which state property was destroyed, challenged their dismissals in the Labour Court in Johannesburg.
Proceedings officially began on Thursday but only properly got under way on Friday after the SABC failed to file the necessary papers in time.
The journalists had earlier launched an urgent Constitutional Court application over their suspensions.
Last Monday, the SABC sent termination letters to Jacques Steenkamp, Krivani Pillay, Suna Venter, and Foeta Krige for what the broadcaster has described as behaviour that undermines the conduct of the public broadcaster.
Watch the full judgment below:
Additional reporting by African News Agency.