{"id":8952,"date":"2021-11-25T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=8952"},"modified":"2021-11-25T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:39:38","slug":"media-statement-the-public-broadcaster-rejects-the-scapegoating-of-sabc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-the-public-broadcaster-rejects-the-scapegoating-of-sabc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | THE PUBLIC BROADCASTER REJECTS THE SCAPEGOATING OF SABC NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg \u2013 Thursday, 25 November 2021 &#8211; <\/strong>The SABC notes with concern the allegations by Minister Fikile Mbalula that the SABC\u2019s coverage of the local government elections was to blame for low voter turnout and the ANC\u2019s poor performance in several municipalities and metros.\u00a0 Minister Mbalula has also personalised the matter by unacceptably singling out and criticising SABC Group Executive of News and Current Affairs, Ms Phathiswa Magopeni.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ANC has not submitted any written evidence to substantiate these allegations. SABC management believes that SABC News covered these elections in line with its Editorial Policies and ICASA\u2019s election regulations. SABC management therefore rejects Minister Mbalula\u2019s allegations in the strongest terms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The public broadcaster believes that this scapegoating of SABC News is unacceptable and disrespects the SABC\u2019s role as an independent public broadcaster fulfilling its constitutional duty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SABC reiterates that should any political party have a complaint about any aspects of the SABC\u2019s coverage they are encouraged to follow the established regulatory avenues available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T<\/strong><\/a><strong>. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg \u2013 Thursday, 25 November 2021 &#8211; The SABC notes with concern the allegations by Minister Fikile Mbalula that the SABC\u2019s coverage of the local government elections was to blame for low voter turnout and the ANC\u2019s poor performance in several municipalities and metros.\u00a0 Minister Mbalula has also personalised the matter by unacceptably singling out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8952\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}