''We need to fight for our public broadcaster.''
So says the South African Screen Federation (Sasfed) calling on all members and member organisations to mobilise en masse for this Thursday 24 November's planned massive public protest action at the SABC, set to take place 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.
Sasfed is now calling on all members to join the public picketing at the SABC on Thursday 24 November. Sasfed represents a vast and diverse number of TV and film industry organisations in South Africa - ranging from organisations such as the Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA) and the Independent Producers Organisation (IPO) to the South African Guild of Actors (SAGA), the Official South African Casting Association (OCSA SA), The South African Guild of Editors (SAGE) to Women in Film and Television SA and many more.
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 such as Sasfed are now demanding the immediate removal of dr Ben Ngubane as SABC chairperson.
Planning to wear black and red, the collective public protest group says they're tired of the SABC who remains unable to get it's house in order while the broadcaster remains mired in debt and 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.
