{"id":1373,"date":"2004-01-09T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T20:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/01\/09\/\/"},"modified":"2004-01-09T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T20:47:27","slug":"1373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/1373\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iafrica.com\/news\/sa\/295574.htm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Has the SABC become South Africa&#8217;s state broadcaster?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/anc_flag.jpg\" alt=\"ANC\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>The SABC has decided to do a live broadcast of President Thabo Mbeki&#8217;s speech to introduce the African National Congress&#8217;s election manifesto, but not to do the same for other political parties.<\/strong> The IFP, DA, NA, FF Plus and UDM urged the South African Broadcasting Corporation to reconsider its decision or give other parties the same benefit. Mbeki&#8217;s address will be followed by an in-depth analysis of the ANC&#8217;s election manifesto by Vuoy Mvuko, SABC news editor, and Redi Direko of the TV programme Interface.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The SABC is giving an unfair advantage to the ANC by providing them with special treatment and extra coverage in the run-up to the general election. By doing so, the SABC is helping to determine the election result.&#8221;<\/em> ~ DA spokesman Nick Clelland-Stokes.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The SABC is being turned back into an apartheid-style state broadcaster.&#8221;<\/em> ~ IFP spokesperson Suzanne Vos.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) also questioned the decision, which it said was &#8220;not appropriate&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has the SABC become South Africa&#8217;s state broadcaster? The SABC has decided to do a live broadcast of President Thabo Mbeki&#8217;s speech to introduce the African National Congress&#8217;s election manifesto, but not to do the same for other political parties. The IFP, DA, NA, FF Plus and UDM urged the South African Broadcasting Corporation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}