DA calls on ANC Chief Whip to back request for urgent meeting on SABC
5 July 2016
Last week I sent a letter to the ANC Chief Whip in Parliament, Jackson Mthembu, to request an urgent meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Communications to discuss the current crisis at the SABC and to demand answers from the Minister and the SABC leadership.
In response, I was told that the ANC in Parliament has agreed that this is not urgent enough and can wait until Parliament reconvenes after the Local Government Election on 3 August.
This cannot be accepted. The crisis at the SABC is only escalating, with more journalists having received charges and with mass action planned for tomorrow. There have also been revelations over the weekend that the SABC leadership have deliberately chosen to provide biased coverage of the ANC ahead of the election.