COSATU says it condemns the SABC board nominations
By Rhodé Marshall13 September 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) says it condemns the absence of the working class representatives on the final short list of candidates for the Board of the SABC submitted to the President by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications.
COSATU also says the selection of names does not correspond with the Broadcasting Act.
“The names being put forward to the president clearly contravene the obligation to include people with expertise and experience in social and labour issues and those who represent a broad cross-section of the population of the public,” says COSATU national spokesperson Patrick Craven.
Craven says the union has consistently called on the SABC to increase and improve its coverage of labour and working-class issues, including a daily labour news slot and a weekly TV current affairs programme on labour and the working class.
“We have also demanded a working-class perspective on the news, on such issues as poverty, development, HIV/AIDS and other developmental challenges facing our country,” says Craven.
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