Johannesburg - The Right2Know Campaign is calling on major commercial bank FNB and SAB to stop advertising on South African Broadcasting Corporation platforms until the crises dogging the public broadcaster are resolved.
R2K activists marched to the FNB Bank City headquarters in the Johannesburg CBD on Wednesday morning, where they sang and danced, before handing over a memorandum of demands.
R2K's Micah Reddy said it decided to march on the two institutions because they were the SABC's major advertisers.If they continued advertising in the public broadcaster they would be encouraging corruption, he said.
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The activists are not happy that Hlaudi Motsoeneng was placed back in his old SABC job as general executive of corporate affairs, following the Western Cape High Court ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeal, that Motsoeneng’s appointment as acting COO was irrational and must be set aside.
This was as a result of the public protector’s findings that he had misrepresented his matric qualification and hiked his salary from R1.5 million to R2.4 million in a single year, among other adverse findings.
Reddy characterised Motsoeneng as a political lackey doing the work of an "unaccountable faction of the ANC". The SABC had retained him in order to allow him to do the bidding of President Jacob Zuma and Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, said Reddy.
"He is sinking that ship, the SABC. It is now a propaganda and PR machine of the ruling party, and we can't accept that," he said, adding the SABC was another example of state capture.
"We call on advertisers to no longer do business with the SABC until meaningful steps are taken to address the crises," added Reddy.
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