SABC bans DA advert

OrbitalDawn said:
Completely or just in the interim while the hearing has been postponed?
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From fairly close to the horses mouth:
... the Democratic Alliance and the SABC have reached an agreement in the following terms:

1. That the matter between the parties, which is before the CCC, is postponed sine die (i.e. indefinitely);
2. That the SABC undertakes that the advertisement in question (i.e. the source of the dispute) will be aired immediately by the SABC;
3. The parties will decide at a later stage whether they will file any papers on the matter in the near future, but in any event before the end of the election period.

The CCC confirmed the above terms on 16 April 2014.
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My view is that this is a big win for the DA.
 
I'm guessing there's no way this will air during the news ad breaks when there is likely the largest audience watching.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
Hah! I'm guessing the new legal team showed them the wiki of the Streissand Effect.
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I LOVE the Streisand effect!

The DA has had more mileage out of this than they ever would if the idiots at SABC had just left things as they were! :p
 
Ninja'd said:
I'm guessing there's no way this will air during the news ad breaks when there is likely the largest audience watching.
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I'm sure they pay for the advertisements, you pick the slot and pay accordingly. If I'm not mistaken the slots before & during the news are the most expensive slots.
 
The Democratic Alliance's "Ayisafani" [It's not the same] election TV advert -- originally pulled off the air by the SABC -- had garnered nearly half a million views on Youtube by Saturday.

Over 491,000 people have viewed the advertisement on the social media site since it was posted on April 8. It has 3796 likes and 237 thumbs down.

The advert shows the DA's Gauteng premier candidate and spokesman, Mmusi Maimane, standing in front of a mirror talking about the current state of the country.

On the Youtube posting, the DA has added a caption below calling for supporters to "Help the DA fight corruption, eTolls and Nkandla" - as well as providing a link for donations.

Under the video link, a variety of comments -- some of them heated --weigh up the merits of the advertisement.

A more light-hearted batch are about the English automatic captions that Youtube has created for the advertisement.

Maimane's declaration that "there have been some great leaders", has been reinterpreted by the captioning as him saying "there has been some crazy to see leaders".

At one point in the advertisement, a mention of the ANC is subtitled as "Nancy" and Maimane's final slogan line: "ANC Ayisafani, together we can bring hope", is 'translated' as "ENC, I said fine to get weekend."

This week, it was announced that the television advertisement, as well as five radio ads, would be aired by the SABC after the national broadcaster originally pulled them from the air after being flighted for two days on April 8 and 9.

The party then laid a complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).

On Wednesday, a hearing by the Complaints and Compliance Committee at Icasa was postponed after the SABC hired a new legal team.

The DA accepted the postponement on condition that the party's six adverts be aired with immediate effect.

Originally, the SABC said it could not broadcast the advertisements on grounds related to incitement of violence, publication of false information about election candidates and parties, the perceived personal nature of the attack on Zuma and advertising standards that did not allow the discrediting of one product to promote another.
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Or people just avoid politics?
 
I posted this remark yesterday in respect of Zuma and it seems to have dropped off the thread

"He is too well guarded, as befits a (soon-to-be) Life President"

Surely the censorship is not that tight?
 
ICASA TO HEAR COMPLAINT AGAINST ADVERT

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is set to hear a complaint by the SA Police Services against the DA's election advert on Thursday morning.

"The SAPS said in their complaint that the television advert would incite violence against the police," said Icasa spokesman Paseka Maleka.

"The police said the part of the advert where the Democratic Alliance's [Gauteng premier candidate] Mmusi Maimane says "..the police are killing our people.." and shows a policeman shooting at a person, would invite violent acts against the members of the SAPS."

The advert was previously banned by public broadcaster SABC after it was flighted on April 8 and 9. The SABC said the advert incited violence.

The DA laid a complaint with Icasa, after which a public hearing was held on the matter.

The SABC then brought back the advert and aired it on its channels.

The 'Ayisafani' (It's not the same) advert shows Maimane standing in front of a mirror talking about the current state of the country.

The SAPS lodged the complaint on April 19. The public hearing would be held at the Icasa offices in Sandton.


Source : Sapa /gm/aa/jje
Date : 24 Apr 2014 08:01
 
Fudzy said:
It's sad really, this Oscar video has over a million:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfxezPJr-8
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You mean a video about Oscar Pistorius, who's trial is followed by people all over the world, and covered by all the big news agencies over the world, somehow managed to get more views than a party political advertisement of a relatively small South African political party? However did this happen. icon_rolleyes.gif
 
Jab said:
You mean a video about Oscar Pistorius, who's trial is followed by people all over the world, and covered by all the big news agencies over the world, somehow managed to get more views than a party political advertisement of a relatively small South African political party? However did this happen. View attachment 114432
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I never saw that Oscar video shared anywhere on this site or in social media. The DA video on the other hand spammed everything just after ruling.
 
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