The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has declared the SABC’s editorial policies to be invalid. This follows a challenge of the amendments to the SABC’s editorial policies by lobby group SOS Support Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa‚ represented by the Legal Resources Centre. The group contended that the SABC had failed to publish the proposed amendments to its editorial policies for public comment before accepting the amendments on January 25 2016. The parties argued that the failure to publish the proposed amendments was in breach of section 6(6) of the Broadcasting Act of 1999. Icasa’s Complaints and Compliance Committee (CCC) noted that the amendment to the editorial policies contained a number of significant revisions that were of concern to the complainants‚ including that: • It altered the substance of the upward referral policy‚ by which the CEO would be replaced by the chief operating officer to resolve disputes; • It removed the prohibitio...
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