The SABC's SABC TV News division keeps slipping up with amateur and embarrassing mistakes, with the anchor of its Venda TV news bulletin on Monday on SABC2 suddenly referring to "Jacob Ramaphosa" during a story about former president Jacob Zuma and Nkandla.
The on-air slip-up came
just after Peter Ndoro was sent on indefinite leave "to rest" after botching the English news on SABC3 and SABC News saying
"Cyril Ramaphosa has passed away" instead of Zimbabwe's Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died earlier
last week.
The SABC is working hard to
try and restore credibility and viewers' trust in its news offering following
Hlaudi Motsoeneng's infamous censorship decree and undue editorial interference
into the SABC’s newsroom but the public broadcaster keeps having to apologise
for mistakes.
In the latest SABC News
on-air blooper, the Venda news anchor said told the nation that "After the
resignation of president Jacob Ramaphosa, the residence of Nkandla was
saddened".
In August 2017 the SABC in
its lower third banner referred to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as
"mini-Zuma".
Just
last week the SABC said in a statement that it would “like to ensure all its
audiences that it remains fully committed to delivering news that is fair,
balanced and accurate".
AWKWARD. The SABC's on-air SABC News errors continue, despite the SABC having said 3 times prior now that it is taking steps to prevent re-occurences.— TVwithThinus (@TVwithThinus) February 20, 2018
On Monday a SABC News anchor (on the @SABC_2 Venda news) speaks of 'Jacob Ramaphosa' while referring to Jacob Zuma. pic.twitter.com/5yHoblwzmk
