SABC employees are threatening to strike, the South African public broadcaster's SABC News has reported - but the story and video report has been censored and scrubbed from the SABC News social media sites like Facebook, with the video clip of the report that has also quietly been removed from YouTube where it was uploaded to by SABC News earlier.
The SABC's SABC News division reported that angry SABC employees are threatening to go on strike as the basically bankrupt SABC continues to go through financial problems.
SABC News reported that salary negotiations were suspended after the SABC offered no increase this year, stating that it was bankrupt.
SABC News reported that "staff morale inside the SABC are at its lowest level".
SABC News reported that the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) has written an open letter to parliament's portfolio committee on communications to ensure that president Jacob Zuma approves the appointment of the new permanent SABC board and that the beleaguered SABC gets its R3 billion bailout to keep the SABC afloat.
It's not known why the SABC decided to censor and remove its own SABC News reporting online from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and elsewhere after it had already broadcast the SABC News report on television and on the SABC News (DStv 404) channel on MultiChoice's DStv platform.
On Twitter the SABC News tweet can still be seen, with SABC News reporting that "VIDEO | SABC employees threaten to go on strike youtu.be/t0s0uNL7MM".
The link to the video news report has however been censored and removed.
On the internet however, nothing is forever truly gone.
Here the few lines can still be read that SABC News added to its description of its reporting when it posted its reporting to YouTube, although the video has been censored.
Recently Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson on 702 radio explained why over 100 SABC TV news personnel are threatening to go on strike and how the SABC's SABC Television News faces a blackout if that happens.
SABC staffers demand that the SABC reverse ashocking decision to merge their unit with with Henley Television Studio Facilities.
The SABC Television News technical personnel say the SABC must undo the merger or news employees will go on strike.
According to Hannes du Buisson, SABC staffers believe that the shocking merger was done to protect enforcers of the corrupt SABC regime from losing their jobs and to shield them from their bad financial mismanagement.
