SABC hits back at Ramaphosa broadcast error report
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has refuted claims that it misled South Africans by claiming sabotage was behind the broadcasting of an incorrect version of speech by President Cyril Ramaphosa last year.
The public broadcaster aired a rehearsal of the speech President Ramaphosa gave on gender-based violence in September.
One employee was dismissed following an internal disciplinary process.
The Mail and Guardian reported on Friday that there was never any sabotage at the SABC but that the broadcast was down to “errors and sheer incompetence” from the side of the broadcaster.
"The South African Broadcasting Corporation notes the article published today by the Mail & Guardian titled ‘The sabotage that wasn’t at the SABC’,” the broadcaster’s spokesperson Mmoni Seapolelo said on Friday.
"The SABC refutes the allegation that the corporation misled the nation.”
“The SABC emphasises that due process was followed in the disciplinary process. It is also not true that the board became involved in this operational matter which was handled in terms of the SABC’s human resources and disciplinary processes,” Seapolelo added.