{"id":2499,"date":"2018-05-08T12:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2018-05-08T12:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:19:56","slug":"sabc-responds-to-a-matter-concerning-tv-licence-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc-responds-to-a-matter-concerning-tv-licence-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC\u00a0RESPONDS TO A MATTER CONCERNING TV LICENCE EMPLOYEES\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/webmail.sabc.co.za\/owa\/attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAxFEHX6I2OTofG3BjbrXC9BwDXbFLBKaIgRbXl5BeE9N84AAANbkj2AACl5TlXMcNjRYAgWjYqon5VAAEFt4qoAAAJ&amp;attcnt=1&amp;attid0=BAAAAAAA&amp;attcid0=image001.jpg%4001D3DFD8.0D572020\" alt=\"cid:image001.jpg@01D3DFD8.0D572020\" width=\"173\" height=\"98\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #232323; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>MEDIA STATEMENT<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #232323; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b><u>SABC\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b><u>RESPONDS TO A MATTER CONCERNING TV LICENCE EMPLOYEES\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #232323; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Johannesburg,\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Monday, 07 May 2018<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8211; \u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to put the record straight on the matter concerning the employees who were relieved of their duties on Wednesday, 02 May 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The SABC would like to put it on record that the employees referred to committed an act of misconduct in that they embarked on an \u201cunprotected strike action\u201d which was not in compliance with the provisions of the Labour Relations Act and SABC policies . Despite numerous attempts by Management to dissuade them from continuing with this unlawful action they continued with the action. Consequently they were \u00a0subjected to an internal disciplinary process which was in compliance with the requirements of procedural and substantive fairness. \u00a0The SABC management followed all the required prescripts \u00a0in arriving at the pronouncement, based on the submissions presented before the aforesaid disciplinary process. \u00a0It is also important \u00a0that we do not engage in any further detail in the public domain.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Ends<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Media Enquiries<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Mmoni Seapolelo<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Acting Spokesperson<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>073\u00a0688 1590<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.sabc.co.za\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=9CauGxPVJU22AjHlxsIASyDLV0Ym4_Ejb7m8oF_IzLnuEkZE3LTVCA..&amp;URL=mailto%3aseapolelomv%40sabc.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seapolelomv@sabc.co.za<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 MEDIA STATEMENT SABC\u00a0RESPONDS TO A MATTER CONCERNING TV LICENCE EMPLOYEES\u00a0 Johannesburg,\u00a0Monday, 07 May 2018&#8211; \u00a0The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to put the record straight on the matter concerning the employees who were relieved of their duties on Wednesday, 02 May 2018. 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