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Economic freedom fighters were directly victims of editorial and marginalization interference at the SABC, an investigative commission on the public broadcaster heard Monday.
The commission, chaired by Executive Director of the Press Council, Joe Thloloe, studies the political and editorial interference of the public broadcaster.
In May, the SABC announced that the commission would investigate the veracity of interference in the newsroom and investigate "personal favors" at the workplace.
Read: SABC sets up investigations on editorial interference, badual harbadment
The acting group's CEO Namesa Philiso made the announcement, stating that the investigations were part of "repairing what's wrong before "
The SABC, the integrity of information is key and while we are in a renewal phase in newsrooms, we also want to protect them from the future to make sure that some past mistakes do not happen again. "
For the editorial survey, the commission was looking at the periods between 2012 and 2018, because it is then that, according to Philiso, "the wheels may have begun to fall"
" We will look at the news She said:
Presenting his arguments Monday before the investigation, EFF spokesman, Dr. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, said the party was "marginalized as a new player and opposition political party, including before and during the 2014 general election ".
Ndlozi claimed that when other media platforms invited the party when it was launched, Morning Live refused to do so. In 2016, former SABC CEO Jimi Matthews reportedly admitted that the public broadcaster had deliberately banned EFF and its leader Julius Malema.
Ndlozi stated that Matthews reportedly stated that the EFF and his boss were a "nuisance".
"Although Mr. Matthews never testified under oath to that effect, neither before the investigation [de[parliamentary] nor before any other authority, as far as we are concerned, he is publicly known", he said.
Ndlozi also alleges that the former director of the SABC's operation, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, "explicitly asked us to withdraw from the criticisms made by the Parliamentary Communications Committee in exchange for
"We obviously did not back down and we were in the forefront of calling for accountability and demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the SABC."
He also claimed that ANC had always tried to "marginalize and force the marginalization" of the coverage of the opposition.
"The idea that I am a dominant political party in Parliament and that I should therefore get more media coverage is not only absurd, it reflects a very fascist attitude.
" As long as the ANC is not doing anything new, they deserve no media coverage, "he said.
He said any station that gave a platform to the party would be criticized internally.
" In fact, many producers, if not all producers who invited us to their shows and platforms for which they were responsible, always shared with us that to invite the EFF and its leader Julius Malema came at the price and pressure of The direction. "
Philiso stated that they hoped to have a draft report ready early August on the preliminary findings of the commissions.
– News24 News Reports
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