# Black Friday

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# Black Friday today - protesting against the draconian measures taken by SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

Unfolding as we read the headlines.


Johannesburg - About 100 media workers, members of civil organisations and the public had gathered along Henley Road outside the SABC to picket as six of the public broadcaster's employees' disciplinary hearings were being heard.

Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/scores-join-censorship-protest-at-the-sabc-20160701
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Cape Town – The SABC did not respond to reports that the public broadcaster's chief operating office Hlaudi Motsoeneng instructed staff not to join protests outside its offices on Friday.

Reliable sources shared with News24 that the instruction was filtered down to SABC staff to stay away, or face disciplinary action.

Zwelinzima Vavi, former Cosatu general secretary, shared similar information with protesters outside the SABC head office in Auckland Park on Friday.

"First I am told that the workers who should have joined us at 10:00 have just been locked inside by the tsar Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who has told everybody last night that anybody who will come out and support this demonstration today must consider themselves as having been fired," Vavi told the crowd.

"It seems he didn't trust his intimidation. He went beyond that to lock the gates so that no worker must come out and support the colleagues."

Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/sabc-mum-on-hlaudis-alleged-instruction-to-staff-not-to-join-protests-20160701
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Special Assignment executive producer Busisiwe Ntuli, SAfm current affairs executive producer Krivani Pillay and senior investigative journalist Jacques Steenkamp were on Thursday slapped with charges pertaining to illegal conduct after raising their concerns about censorship in a letter to chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who is widely viewed as President Jacob Zuma’s ally.

In their letter they described how the draconian censorship policy had turned the newsroom into a hub of “derision and despair” and how it had solicited negative sentiments from the public.

Source: http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/blackfriday-at-the-sabc-2040578
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Seems like its turning into a bit of a bloodbath for the journos ....
 
The public should back this by making paper aeroplanes out of their TV license accounts, ala scamral.
 
I am surprised at how much news space its taking up online - other than the SABC site, which is (no surprises here) running an article on the ANC campaign in the Free State. :(
 
Why didn't the mybb logo go dark? They did that last journalists protested about some law.
 
slapped with charges pertaining to illegal conduct after raising their concerns about censorship in a letter to chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng
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Definition of illegal:
contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
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I would suggest, or rather I know
have just been locked inside by the tsar Hlaudi Motsoeneng,
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... is illegal! All you needed was one stray EFF with matches.

What does this public servant Hlaudi Motsoeneng think of himself? He's being paid with tax payers money. But I guess he did not get to that part in his education. :sick:
 
This is a great thing, the more protests and coverage this creates,
The less they can continue to lie to the public!

Censorship belongs in the dark ages, we live in the information age, where nothing can truly be hidden!
 
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