TOM EATON: Embarrass the ANC? Come off it!

Even by the soul-sapping standards of the Sunday press it was a startling headline: the ANC, City Press reported, doesn’t want the SABC to fire anyone because it fears that a wave of retrenchments will “embarrass” the governing party.

Of course, there were plenty of other macabre details in the piece. For example, there seems to be confusion about whether a meeting between the ANC and SABC suits was arranged by the party or its puppet, with both insisting it was the other lot who called the meeting.A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as exclusive Financial Times articles, ProfileData financial data, and digital access to the Sunday Times and Times Select.

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