I have previously advocated that MultiChoice should ditch ANN7 for being a propaganda mouthpiece masquerading as an independent news organisation. I argued that if MultiChoice failed to do so, consumers should ditch MultiChoice. Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the scale of MultiChoice’s complicity in the plunder of SA, as was laid bare in the media last week. MultiChoice’s holding company, Naspers, has now entered the fray in a way that I predict will be disastrous for the company. In a live radio interview last week, chairman Koos Bekker came across as defensive, entitled and argumentative. This is perhaps unsurprising given the tone and content of the statement issued by Naspers earlier in the day, from which it is clear that the group considers it entirely appropriate that the Gupta family should have a voice such as ANN7, in the interests of media freedom and diversity. Come again? MultiChoice should facilitate a single influential family having a voice on te...
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