'Organic intellectual' and ACM leader, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, says he can't understand why court dismissed his political party's application to force the SABC to give it live coverage.

The "organic intellectual" and leader of the African Content Movement (ACM) political party, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, says he doesn't understand why the South Gauteng High Court dismissed the ACM's application for an urgent court interdict to force the SABC to broadcast the ACM's manifesto launch live and to give it rolling coverage.

On Saturday Judge Willem van der Linde dismissed the ACM's application for an urgent court interdict with costs.

The ACM and its famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng, decided to bring an application in the form of an urgent court interdict to try and force the SABC to give live broadcast coverage on Saturday on SABC2 and its SABC News (DStv 404) channel to the new political party's launch in Durban on Saturday.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng that now wants to take the case to the Constitutional Court after the High Court threw it out.

The caustic and egotistic Hlaudi Motsoeneng who lied about having a matric certificate and faked symbols on it, is a former chief operating officer (COO) at the broadcaster who was fired in 2017 after bringing the South African public broadcaster to the brink of financial collapse and inflicting massive reputational brand damage on the broadcaster.

The SABC said that it has not and will not be doing any live coverage of the manifesto launches ahead of South Africa's upcoming elections on 8 May for any of the new and existing political parties that have no representation in South Africa's parliament.

The SABC said that "no political party can dictate to the SABC how it provides political coverage of election-related activities" and that the South African Broadcasting Corporation "remains committed to covering the 2019 elections in an unrestrained, independent and impartial manner".

Phathiswa Magopeni, the SABC's head of news and current affairs said that "this is an editorial decision that has taken into account, amongst others, resource constraints and equitable coverage treatment of political parties contesting the elections".

"In addition, as per Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) regulations, there is no obligation on the SABC to provide live coverage to any political party".

SABC News reported that Hlaudi Motsoeneng doesn't understand why the court dismissed his application against the SABC, saying "the court, they denied South Africans to have different ideas to compete equally so. It is very important that all political parties are given airtime".

SABC successful as court dismiss the interdict application of Hlaudi Motsoeneng's African Content Movement political party to try and force SABC News to cover its manifesto launch live.

The SABC was successful on Saturday after the South Gauteng High Court dismissed with cost the African Content Movement (ACM) political party's application for an urgent court interdict to try and force the South African public broadcaster to give live broadcast coverage to its manifesto launch.

Judge Willem van der Linde in the South Gauteng High Court on Saturday dismissed the ACM's interdict application and ruled that the editorial policy of the SABC cannot be called into question.

ACM with its leader, the famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng, decided to bring an application in the form of an urgent court interdict to try and force the SABC to give live broadcast coverage on Saturday on SABC2 and its SABC News (DStv 404) channel to the new political party's launch in Durban.

The caustic and egotistic Hlaudi Motsoeneng who lied about having a matric certificate and faked symbols on it, is a former chief operating officer (COO) at the broadcaster who was fired in 2017 after bringing the South African public broadcaster to the brink of financial collapse and inflicting massive reputational brand damage on the broadcaster.

The ACM, through its legal representative, Advocate Macgregor Kufa, argued that the ACM has the right to express itself as a new political party and that the ACM feels that the party's manifesto launch might be excluded from SABC news coverage or even be "manipulated" after editing.

The SABC on Saturday said that it would "vigorously oppose" the application and that it won't cover the ACM's manifesto launch live or give it rolling live news coverage but would cover it as a news story done by its SABC News.

The SABC said that it has not and will not be doing any live coverage of the manifesto launches ahead of South Africa's upcoming elections on 8 May for any of the new and existing political parties that have no representation in South Africa's parliament.

The SABC says in a statement that "no political party can dictate to the SABC how it provides political coverage of election-related activities" and that the South African Broadcasting Corporation "remains committed to covering the 2019 elections in an unrestrained, independent and impartial manner".

Phathiswa Magopeni, the SABC's head of news and current affairs says "this is an editorial decision that has taken into account, amongst others, resource constraints and equitable coverage treatment of political parties contesting the elections".

"In addition, as per Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) regulations, there is no obligation on the SABC to provide live coverage to any political party".

On Saturday afternoon, Vuyo Mthembu, SABC spokesperson, said in a statement after the SABC's court victory that the "SABC is pleased that the South Gauteng High Court has dismissed the African Content Movement's application with costs".

"The dismissal of the application reaffirms that the SABC's decision was the correct one".

SABC to court today as public broadcaster fights with its former COO-now-politician, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who has a plan to help 'people with albinion' as his ACM party demands live coverage of its manifesto launch.

The South African public broadcaster is heading to court on Saturday morning to oppose the application of an urgent court interdict brought by the SABC's former COO-now-politician Hlaudi Motsoeneng who is demanding that the SABC cover his political party's manifesto launch of the African Content Movement (ACM) today live on SABC2 and SABC News (DStv 404).

The SABC says that it will be vigorously opposing the application, that will be heard in the South Gauteng High Court on Saturday from 10:00.

The SABC says that it will cover the ACM's manifesto launch by its SABC News division as a news story but won't be doing live or rolling coverage.

The SABC says that it has not and will not be doing any live coverage of the manifesto launches ahead of South Africa's upcoming elections on 8 May for any of the new and existing political parties that have no representation in South Africa's parliament.

The SABC says in a statement that "no political party can dictate to the SABC how it provides political coverage of election-related activities" and that the South African Broadcasting Corporation "remains committed to covering the 2019 elections in an unrestrained, independent and impartial manner".

Phathiswa Magopeni, the SABC's head of news and current affairs says "this is an editorial decision that has taken into account, amongst others, resource constraints and equitable coverage treatment of political parties contesting the elections".

"In addition, as per Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) regulations, there is no obligation on the SABC to provide live coverage to any political party".

Meanwhile Hlaudi Motsoeneng on the campaign trail has said the ACM will help to empower people with disabilities like "people with albinion".

In a clip circulating on social media, Hlaudi Motsoeneng this week denied that the ACM is a front for the corrupt former South African president Jacob Zuma, saying "Zuma party? No, you are playing! There is no Zuma here. There is only one future president, and it's Hlaudi".

"The new testament is the ACM. The ANC they don’t have ideas! How to turn around South Africa. How to make sure they empower young people, people with disabilities - people with albinion!"

Hlaudi Motsoeneng possibly meant "albinism", a congenital condition that has led to discrimination of black people with less melanin in their skin.

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