South Africa: Cope Condemns Hlaudi Motsoeneng's Abuse of SABC

press release

Congress of the People is disturbed at how Hlaudi Motsoeneng is abusing the public broadcaster. Not even the President can do what Haludi Motsoeneng did with the SABC: he caused the shifting of scheduled programmes to cover him. He has made the SABC his own personal propaganda machine to attack people and especially so the Public Protector who found against him. He also has the audacity to have a rent-a-crowd in front of the court with convicted poo thrower Andile Lili of Ses'khona movement coming all the way from Cape Town to give him support.

Hlaudi's speech outside the Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday afternoon was frankly and utterly embarrassing. Apart from extolling his virtues and capabilities to the skies, he was unable to address the matter before the court in a coherent and intelligent manner. He praised himself as a "born intellectual" and asserted that people at the SABC were "running after" him because he was the only person who "knows better" than anyone else. In his view anyone who is "normal will appoint Hlaudi".

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