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Employees apparently slowed down Tuesday as they addressed their concerns about the Section 189 notices looming at the corporation with management.
FILE: SABC headquarters in Auckland Park. Image: SABC
CAPE TOWN – South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) staff said they would not back down in demanding that the downsizing process at the corporation be halted.
Employees apparently slowed down Tuesday as they addressed their concerns about the Section 189 notices looming at the corporation with management.
The institution plans to lay off about 400 workers, with 170 positions to which they can apply.
“He is heading towards Christmas. You fired Portia, without whom the newsroom can’t survive, Lester … all those people. How do you do something like that? It’s not okay ma’am, ”said television journalist Chriselda Lewis as she passionately pleaded with news and current affairs group executive Phathiswa Magopeni to reconsider the layoffs at SABC.
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Workers at the SABC building in Auckland Park have been picketing since the beginning of this week to shed light on the issue.
They have also asked that the corporation’s management resign.
Magopeni said that the work of the public broadcaster must continue: “I will speak with HR, I will speak with whoever is superior … but sorry with HR, I cannot continue issuing those letters.
SABC has reported a net loss of R511 million for the financial year ending in March.
But the corporation said it was doing well in meeting its content obligations for nation-building and social cohesion.
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