South Africa: Communications Committee to Meet With Bemawu, SABC8

The portfolio committee on communications will meet with members of the SABC8 and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) after they wrote open letters to the committee, decrying the "recapture" of the public broadcaster.

The SABC8 - Thandeka Gqubule-Mbeki, Busisiwe Ntuli, Krivani Pillay, Foeta Krige, Lukhanyo Calata, Vuyo Mvoko, Jacques Steenkamp, Nonkululeko Zonke Smith - called on Parliament to hold the executive to account and Bemawu called on the committee to down tools until President Jacob Zuma appoints the SABC board. The 8th member of the SABC8, Suna Venter, passed on in June this year after being diagnosed with a cardiac condition known as stress cardiomyopathy or "Broken Heart Syndrome".

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