Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has rejected the DA’s application to challenge SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment.
As under apartheid, the state broadcaster is still kowtowing to politicians it should be shunning.
Setting up a biased task team, investigation or inquiry does not equate with accountability.
Universal outrage at the Motsoeneng saga should force this gross injustice to be amended.
Opposition MPs pulled no punches while grilling the communications minister over her role in Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s plum SABC appointment.
An international media rights body has criticised the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng for proposing licences for journalists and increased media regulation.
SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s proposal that journalists be licensed is a ploy to get us to accept dangerous threats to our democracy.
The DA is to ask the high court to set aside Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s permanent posting as the SABC’s operations boss, the party’s leader says.
Faith Muthambi will appear before a parliamentary committee to explain Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment as SABC COO.
The presidency has released a statement denying that Jacob Zuma played any role in the controversial appointment of SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
The public protector will investigate Hlaudi Motsoeneng after he was permanently appointed chief operations officer of the SABC.
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has said that Hlaudi Motsoeneng was appointed COO of SABC after a law firm report cleared him of wrongdoing.
Cabinet has been told it will not discuss the appointment of President Jacob Zuma’s preferred candidate for SABC boss.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng forced the public broadcaster’s hand into appointing him as the chief operations officer of the SABC on a permanent basis.
Controversial acting SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been appointed permanently, the public broadcaster reported.
The SABC’s acting chief operations officer may be in Faith Muthambi’s firing line as she attempts to deal with the "dysfunctional" broadcaster.
A woman has dismissed reports that she was given to Hlaudi Motsoeneng as a “gift” and says the allegations have created rifts in her relationship.
Popular radio Metro FM host, Eddie Zondi, has died reportedly from a heart attack at the age of 47.
The national broadcaster has cancelled a series of City Press adverts, which refer to the Marikana massacre and the EFF, according to the newspaper.
SABC acting COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng says the DA’s second election advert will be aired on May 1, despite the party claiming it had been banned.
Following the DA’s launch of its second "Ayisafani" TV advert, the party has accused the SABC of "political censorship" a week ahead of the elections.
EFF leader Julius Malema has told SABC acting COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng to change his ways or risk being thrown out "like a used a condom" by Zuma.
Members of the EFF are marching in protest of Icasa’s ruling, which was in favour of the SABC’s decision not to flight the party’s election advert.
EFF member, Dali Mpofu, has launched a scathing attack against the SABC during a hearing about the party’s election advert.
In a complaint to Icasa, the SAPS says the "Ayisafani" advert "would incite violence against the police", according to the authority’s spokesperson.
The SABC says it has not banned the advert of the Economic Freedom Fighters but rejected it because it "incited violence".
Icasa’s Complaints and Compliance Committee has ordered that the SABC air the Democratic Alliance’s six adverts with immediate effect.
A hearing on the DA’s ad complaint against the SABC has been adjourned following the broadcaster’s request.
The broadcaster’s acting boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng is said to have thrown all the toys out of his temporary cot.
Those on the SABC’s board and in management don’t see their role as a buffer between politicians and journalists but as cheerleaders of the ANC.
The DA says it will take the communications watchdog to a high court to decide on its complaint against the SABC’s decision to pull its election ad.
R2K and SOS have written to SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala to ask her whether she invoked the National Key Points Act as a warning to staff.