A public protest was held on Friday morning in front of Naspers' pay-TV unit MultiChoice at its MultiChoice City headquarters in Randburg, Johannesburg where the #NotInMyName organisation, as well as some MultiChoice staffers participated in picketing over allegations of rape and sexual harassment of women at the pay-TV company.
Protesters are furious over the way MultiChoice has allegedly not been doing enough to help a rape victim working at MultiChoice and to address sexual harassment of workers.
Siyabulela Jentile of the #NotInMyName organisation says women working at MultiChoice are being victimised through sexual harassment and that "there are women here [at MultiChoice] who say that they have been sexually harassed".
The new MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela on Friday met #NotInMyName protesters.
MultiChoice didn't issue a public press statement following the protest and Calvo Mawela's meeting with them.
Earlier in the week MultiChoice said the satellite pay-TV operator will start a "thorough investigation" after a South African woman who is still working for MultiChoice and previously said she was raped in 2014, allegedly made new and further revelations, saying she was also raped by senior MultiChoice colleagues in 2014.
When the victim complained to a MultiChoice executive about further issues regarding the alleged abusive culture inside MultiChoice, the executive called Simon allegedly told her in an email: "cheers".
Siyabulela Jentile says the worker who says she was raped after a late night work shift that ends at 23:00 has not received adequate support from MultiChoice.
"There is a culture [at MultiChoice] of disrespecting women".
He said "we are calling on all women, not only on those of MultiChoice, to actually come out and speak out against corporate sexual harassment."
Mandisa Mashego of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) political party says "MultiChoice makes their workers knock off late in the dead of the night and then find themselves having to walk to taxi ranks at midnight often."
