27 July 2016
The South African Communist Party (SACP) congratulates the dismissed SABC journalists for standing firm for their rights and expresses its sincere gratitude to progressive organisations that supported their just working class struggle against tyranny at the SABC. The SABC issued a statement a short while ago stating that it instructed its legal team no longer to continue with the appeal - which would have been frivolous anyway - against yesterday`s Johannesburg Labour Court judgement reinstating four of the seven dismissed journalists. The statement further reinstates the three other journalists who would have been at the High Court or Labour Court in Gauteng tomorrow challenging their unlawful dismissals.
The reinstatement of the seven journalists coincided with a successful picket by the SACP at the SABC in Polokwane in support of the journalists! The SACP has been in the forefront of active solidarity with the journalists, working together with its partners in media transformation.
All the seven journalists were unlawfully dismissed by the SABC`s despotic regime enforcing its unconstitutional editorial edict it decreed on 26 May 2016 to impose censorship on violent protest actions in news reporting.
The SACP is calling on the unlawfully serving SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and the SABC board to do an honourable thing, resign and pay the costs of the fruitless and wasteful expenditure spree including legal fees.
The SACP will continue its campaign to bring to an end the administrative and governance decay that is destroying the SABC.
The struggle is not over!
Issued by the SACP
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