{"id":69032,"date":"2013-01-21T17:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69032"},"modified":"2013-01-21T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:51:16","slug":"fnb-ad-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/69032-fnb-ad-debacle.html","title":{"rendered":"FNB ad debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

FNB<\/a> has disallowed public viewing of a number of the YouTube<\/a> videos that formed part of its recently launched \u201cYou can help\u201d advertising campaign.<\/p>\n

This is after accusations from the ANC Youth League<\/a> that the advertisement is a \u201ctreacherous attack\u201d on South Africa, and demands from the Young Communist League that the the bank must retract the advertisements.<\/p>\n

The ANCYL responded to FNB\u2019s removal of the videos by calling the bank\u2019s actions \u201ccowardly\u201d in a statement, and demanded the release of all the videos.<\/p>\n

It specifically named \u201cA speech by Tiara\u201d as among those that must be released to the public, \u201cso that South Africans may engage on this issue from a point of information,\u201d the league said.<\/p>\n

FNB\u2019s ambitious advertising campaign riled the ruling party as well with Mail & Guardian reporting that ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza<\/a> said: \u201cThis isn\u2019t an advert \u2013 it\u2019s a political statement. An attack on the president, his ministers and government as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n