Members of the public invited to give opinion on six SABC policies
The SABC has called on the public to participate in reviewing six policies that have been implemented since 2004. This comes after the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) approved recommendations to nullify the SABC’s editorial policies of 2016‚ which banned the airing of footage of violent protests. The decision meant that the SABC needed to revert to its 2004 editorial policy. "We are today launching the review project of the SABC’s editorial policies," SABC interim chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama said on Thursday. "The process of the policies is to resuscitate the consultation process with the public following Icasa’s complaints and compliance committee that the SABC had not complied with the requirement of section 6 of the Broadcasting Act of 1999." The six policies pertain to news editorial‚ programming‚ local content‚ language‚ religion and universal service. Khweyama said all nine provinces would be visited in order to afford communities an opportunity to contri...
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