The ANC Youth League and the Young Communist League have expressed their support for the Premier Soccer League-SuperSport television rights deal.
"It is a reasonable deal that will benefit soccer, the players and clubs for the improvement of them game," ANC Youth League president Fikile Mbalula told reporters in Johannesburg on Monday.
Mbalula and YCL secretary-general Buti Manamela had met PSL management to discuss the television rights deal.
The youth leaders said they were worried about the "SABC propaganda" that millions of soccer lovers would not be able to watch matches on television as many did not have access to pay television channel SuperSport.
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"We've been assured that football development will be taken into account and that millions of South Africans will still have access to football," said Manamela.
He said the SABC needed to sort out its own problems.
"In the name of God, Dali Mpofu should just go" said Manamela.
The youth leaders urged SABC management to negotiate free to air television rights.
They also condemned the expulsion of SABC soccer presenter Robert Marawa, who was reportedly sacked for inviting a representative from Supersport and PSL on his show to explain the deal. - Sapa
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