At least 13 SABC staffers allegedly took bribes in pay-for-play payola; facing disciplinary hearings for illegal dealings with musicians.

At least 13 staffers are allegedly involved in taking pay-for-play bribes - known in the industry as "payola" - as well as other illegal dealings and are facing disciplinary hearings at the South African public broadcaster.

City Press on Sunday reported that more than a dozen SABC staffers are implicated in various illegal practices, including payola, with SABC music compilers who took money directly from artists in return for their music being playlisted on the various SABC platforms.

The SABC music compilers allegedly went to a workshop organised by Arthur Mafokate and there allegedly took money. Arthur Mafokate reufsed to comment.

More than 15 South African artists confessed they've paid bribes to SABC music compilers for their music to be played.

SABC music compilers allegedly received payment from artists for their music to be playlisted and broadcast on air.

Angry artists march on the SABC over payola; hand over memorandum in public protest at the SABC saying 'bribes must end'.

Angry artists on Tuesday marched to the SABC and protested at the SABC's Auckland Park headquarters over ongoing alleged, corrupt pay-for-play behaviour at the SABC where bribes are given and taken in exchange for musicians to get their songs played on air, saying that "bribes must end".

Over a hundred artists who marched from the Sentech tower in Brixton to the SABC in Auckland Park held a public protest at the SABC on Tuesday and handed a memorandum to the SABC's spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago.

The artists slammed the South African Broadcasting Corporation for "dragging" its feet in properly addressing the scourge of alleged payola at the SABC.

There was no comment or statement from the SABC's Kaizer Kganyago following the public protest.

In Tuesday's memorandum handed to the SABC, the group says that "bribes must end" at the SABC as far as playlisting of music is concerned.

"We as South African artists feel that our music that we submit every Tuesday to the SABC is not being valued or playlisted because of the corruption that has been happening through decades of the Syndicate Brown Envelope to SABC compilers."

"Our music have been kept in the SABC library even after 90/10 local being approved."

The "90/10" is a reference to Hlaudi Motsoeneng's edict for 90% local South African music to be played across the SABC's radio stations.

The group demanded that SABC compilers "must be monitored and there must be a team to do listening sessions with compilers for all the music we submit to be playlisted."

The group said "the SABC must have an office to submit [to ask] for interviews for all SABC radio stations".