Kolping Mbumba
24 June 2016
Right2Know activists will
today stand in solidarity with allied organisations at a picket outside ICASA.
The regulator's Complaints and
Compliance Committee will be hearing a formal complaint brought by Media
Monitoring Africa, SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and the Freedom of
Expression Institute regarding the SABC's decision to ban visuals of the
destruction of property in protests across its news and current affairs
bulletins.
Right2Know Communicator Busi
Mtabane said “Right2Know campaign activists will today stand in solidarity with
allied organisations at a picket outside ICASA.”
Meanwhile, DA will also picket
outside the ICASA headquarters ahead of a hearing on the SABC’s ban on the
airing of footage of violent protest.
DA National Spokesperson
Phumzile Van Damme says “We believe South Africans need to be shown the truth,
nothing but the truth about the conditions in South Africa.”
We therefore today will be
supporting the civil society organisations that brought that to ICASA.” She
added.
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