In late 2021, as acting chief justice Raymond Zondo was wrapping up the commission of inquiry into state capture, SA’s fearless transport minister and ANC head of elections, Fikile Mbalula, was running his mouth off about the country’s national broadcaster.
Now, a weekend report suggests that the attack on the SABC was way more sinister than the bluster of a verbose showman with the gravitas of rancid polony. According to the City Press newspaper, a letter by embattled SABC news head Phathiswa Magopeni suggests blatant and grievous political interference in the public broadcaster.
Now, the SABC has a long and less-than-proud history as lickspittle to the powers that be. An institution riven by corruption and political interference in the dark days of apartheid, it staged something of a resurgence with the turn to democracy — until, in the hands of the majestically unhinged Hlaudi Motsoeneng, it regressed to a toadying mouthpiece of Jacob Zuma’s ANC.
But, then, Mbaks is always up for a bit of diversion. His Twitter account, to take one example, is a highlights reel — a small snapshot of achievement in a performance wasteland. Even his recent oversight visit to Cape Town to inspect the station upgrade programme was an apparent exercise in illusion.
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