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/ 7 September 2007

What Dali Mpofu didn’t say …

When South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) boss Dali Mpofu led the public broadcaster to quit the South African National Editors’ Forum last week in protest against the ”profit-driven” media’s treatment of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, he neglected to mention a commercial interest that might have clouded his own judgement.

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/ 27 October 2006

The astonishing outburst of Dali Mpofu

And so race re-enters the debate about the media. SABC CEO Dali Mpofu says the current furore about blacklisting is all about ”wresting control” of the corporation from ”the barbarians”. He writes in City Press that a ”right-wing lobby and its fellow travellers in the mass media” is attacking the SABC for ”not feeding into their gluttonous, greedy smell of black blood which must be sacrificed at every whim”.