DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane has called on companies and businesses currently advertising with the SABC to pull out of their deals with the state-owned entity."I want to call upon all the people who are advertising here‚ that let us remind the SABC that we can’t keep on pouring money into an institution that is losing money and is a propaganda machine for the ANC‚" said Maimane.He was speaking outside the South African Broadcasting Cooperation’s headquarters in Auckland Park‚ Johannesburg, on Monday afternoon where the DA delivered a memorandum of demands calling for the removal of SABC group executive of corporate affairs Hlaudi Motsoeneng and the disbandment of the broadcaster’s board."Therefore if you are a business‚ you must use this time wisely and stop saying to yourself you will invest in an institution that is undermining our people‚" said Maimane.This comes as the SABC reported a R411m loss for the 2015-2016 financial year but insists the public broadcaster is s...
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