South African television viewers and radio listeners are asked, and are welcome, to join the planned massive public protest action at the SABC that will be taking place this coming Thursday 24 November at 13:00 at the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters in Johannesburg in Henley Avenue and at the visitors' centre at parliament in Cape Town.
The Support Public Broadcasting Coalition (SOS) that is helping to spearhead the public picketing action with people asked to dress in black and red, says TV viewers and radio listeners should be ''concerned'' about the SABC and that they're welcome to join the public protest organized by South Africa's TV industry and public pressure groups.
''Definitely ordinary TV viewers and radio listeners should join,'' Kate Skinner, coordinator of the SOS Coalition tells TV with Thinus. ''We are talking about good corporate governance at the SABC and the need for excellent public service programming from the public broadcaster. Everyone should be concerned about that,'' she says.
''In fact - until ordinary people stand up and fight for better public TV in South Africa we are not going to get it!'' says Kate Skinner.
Following a similar public protest in 2009 against the South Africa's public broadcaster, South Africa's TV industry together with pressure groups and trade representative bodies are now demanding the immediate removal of dr Ben Ngubane as SABC chairperson. They want more local TV content and is asking for more strategic and accountable leadership at South Africa's public broadcaster plagued by management instability.
The SABC didn't respond to media enquiries made this week about the TV industry's demand that dr Ben Ngubane step down, or the planned public protest action scheduled for this Thursday.
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