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The DA says it will be writing to Parliament’s Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications, Boyce Maneli, asking for an urgent meeting including the SABC Board and senior management regarding the dismissal of Head of News Phathiswa Magopeni.

Phathiswa Magopeni during an interview at the Election Results Operations Centre in Tshwane in 2019.

may once again be under threat. The party says in a statement that there are worrying signs of efforts to politically recapture the SABC. It says comments last year by Jessie Duarte and Fikile Mbalula that blamed the SABC’s election coverage for the ANC’s poor showing in the 2021 elections were early signs of things to come.Labour Union BEMAWU is also calling for an urgent investigation to be conducted by Parliament’s Communications Portfolio Committee into the dismissal of Magopeni.

A disciplinary hearing last year had found Magopeni guilty of misconduct after she allegedly failed to ensure that an interdicted Special Assignment programme was not aired. The SABC then asked Magopeni to submit mitigating factors. She refused on the grounds that it was not the SABC but the broadcaster’s board chair that should make the request.BEMAWU’S Hannes du Buisson, “I am very concerned as we have seen the grievances that she has lodged and they are very serious grievances and we are acting in this point in time and not on her behalf but on behalf of the allegations made by her.

 

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