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“When you came here, this is not what we expected of you. Many of us in the journalism industry look up to you, ”he said.
Lewis attacked some SABC managers, telling them that the workers were the ones who kept the SABC running long before they were appointed.
The issuer reported a net loss of R511m for the year ended March 31, 2020 and a decrease in revenue from R6.4bn the previous year to R5.7bn, presenting its financial results for the 2019/20 financial year on Tuesday.
Magobeni told staff during the meeting that he would retract the dismissal letters that were previously sent to some of them. “I will go to negotiate this later, but I cannot continue with the downsizing process,” he told staff.
Magobeni said he understood the anger, anxiety and what the staff was going through.
The SABC said in a statement in early November that the organization required a “difficult but necessary restructuring process that will result in downsizing.”
“SABC is fully aware of the fact that this process will affect people’s livelihoods and, furthermore, will have a ripple effect on their families and communities. However, having exhausted all other options, we now face the difficult task of having to restructure the organization to ensure its sustainability. “
The ANC and its alliance partners said Tuesday that they were fully behind the station’s workers with liquidity problems.
After a meeting on Tuesday, the alliance’s secretariat – made up of the secretaries of the ANC, Partido Comunista SA (SACP) and Cosatu, said it opposed the planned transfer of part of the public broadcaster – as reported by the SABC to unions and workers in a letter dated November 11.
“This amounts to both outsourcing and privatization, insofar as those who control the SABC intend to transfer part of the public broadcaster or its operations to a private for-profit company.”
The secretariat stood in solidarity with the workers and vehemently opposed what it called “the weakening of the SABC and its public broadcasting mandate and its subordination to commercial interests.”
The secretariat called on the members of the alliance formations to actively support the Union of Communications Workers and the union unit of the SABC and Cosatu in the fight against dismissals and in the defense of public broadcasting.
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