SABC journalist Lukhanyo Calata has been charged by the public broadcaster.<\/p>\n
News24 has learnt that Calata received the charges on Monday. The details of the charges were not made available.<\/p>\n
Calata on Friday joined a protest march outside the SABC\u2019s offices in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
At the protest, Calata, who was joined by his young son, told News24 that he was there because “it was important for me to show solidarity with other journalists”.<\/p>\n
He said he was encouraged by the support shown by other media houses for journalists at the SABC.<\/p>\n
Calata is a parliamentary reporter based in Cape Town.<\/p>\n
His father, Fort, was a member of the “Cradock Four”, anti-apartheid activists who were\u00a0assassinated\u00a0near Port Elizabeth in 1985.<\/p>\n
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago could not be reached\u00a0for comment on Monday after multiple attempts.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the SABC charged three journalists for “liaising with the media” without authorisation from their bosses.<\/p>\n
The three –\u00a0Busisiwe Ntuli, Krivani Pillay and Jacques Steenkamp –\u00a0wrote a letter to COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng last weekend, expressing their dissatisfaction with how operations had been managed at the SABC over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n
This followed the suspension of three other employees -Thandeka Gqubule, Foeta Krige and Suna Venter.<\/p>\n
The three were served with\u00a0suspension letters two weeks ago for allegedly “distancing” themselves from an order. They disagreed with an instruction during a diary conference not to cover the Right2Know campaign’s protest against censorship at the public broadcaster earlier that week.<\/p>\n
Lukanyo Calata of the SABC, with his son, says: “It was important for me to show solidarity with other journalists.”<\/p>\n
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