Statement on the banning of EFF by the public broadcaster
19 March 2014
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) can now officially confirm that all its activities and programmes have been banned by the South African Broadcasting Commission (SABC), the Public Broadcaster, which has a legal, moral and constitutional obligation to provide quality, fair and balanced broadcasting to all South Africans.
The SABC Television division is being manipulated by Puppets of certain political parties to completely ban anything that has to do with EFF on Television. On the 17th of March 2014, the EFF held a Press Conference to announce our lists to Parliament, and we have it in good authority that the SABC Crew that was supposed to cover the Press Conference was physically prevented from using the SABC Cameras.
On Tuesday, the 18th of March 2014, the EFF Commander in Chief Julius Malema did a pre-recorded interview with SABC's Channel 404 in a television show called Question Time, anchored by Mpho Tsedu. During the interview, a staff member of the SABC went to both the interviewer and interviewee to say that there is an instruction to stop the interview before it could finish, and made a commitment that such a commitment will not be carried out.
The anchor of the TV Show which CiC Julius Malema pre-recorded sent an official communication which reads as follows: "Afternoon Julius. Thank you for making time this morning to talk to me on Question Time. The interview was scheduled to go on air today at 17:30 as I had mentioned to you. However, that won't be the case. I want to apologize for the inconvenience I have caused as a result of this "no-show" today. Mpho".