EDITORIAL: Welcome end to Zupta TV
The demise of the ANN7 television channel serves to show that nothing premised on the deceit of millions can last forever
It’s poetic justice, isn’t it, that the final broadcast by the Gupta propaganda channel happened on the first day of the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture? The demise of the ANN7 television channel — recently renamed Afro Worldview — exactly a year after Mzwanele Manyi "bought" it from the repugnant Gupta family serves to show that nothing premised on the deceit of millions can last forever. For years, ANN7 broadcast little more than outright propaganda for the Guptas and former president Jacob Zuma. It didn’t even have the subtlety of state-owned Russia Today.
Today, the unlimited power that the Guptas and their allies in the ANC enjoyed has gone. The New Age newspaper, often as bluntly propagandist as Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald, folded on June 29, via liquidation at the high court. The Guptas’ mining entities are also gasping for air. Their demise is imminent. In a jobs-starved economy, it is easy to fall into the trap of mistaking ventures such as these for ...
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