POLITICAL NEWS - Speaking during a public lecture on Cuba and Latin America at Unisa’s main campus in Pretoria on Friday, ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande both commented on the perceived blackout of the ANC on SABC news platforms.
According to City Press, Magashule hinted that it was time the governing party took control of the SABC.
“It is amazing because our friends throughout the world are asking us a question: how are you governing? Why do you call yourself the governing alliance when you are not in charge of the public broadcaster?” said Magashule.
During his own speech, Nzimande responded “let’s put pressure, comrade Ace, on the SABC. We can’t be having a poison that we are given every day about Venezuela and Cuba and sit and keep quiet and say that we have a public broadcaster.”
Nzimande went on to qualify his statements by saying that his utterances were a critique in an academic platform and not an attack.
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