Ukhozi FM DJs suspended for playing Malema song
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Two Ukhozi FM presenters have been reportedly been suspended for a month after playing a controversial song about ANCYL president Julius Malema.
The Witness newspaper reported on Friday that the two apparently played the song during the traditional music show "Utalagu" on Saturday and were suspended on Thursday.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago told the newspaper the station decided to take presenters Khathide "Tshatha" Ngobe and Ngizwe Mchunu off air after they played the song, which was not on the playlist.
"This is not about the song, but about the two disregarding the rules. The song was not scheduled on the show’s playlist.
"This decision was made after a meeting in which the two were given a chance to explain themselves, where they did admit to their wrongdoing."
"The station and the SABC take the breaching of these rules seriously," said Kganyago.
Izingane Zoma, a maskandi group, reportedly wrote a song accusing Malema of being uncontrollable and of criticising the ANC leadership.
The single, called uMalema, was recently sent to radio stations and was expected to hit the shelves of Durban music shops on Thursday.
African National Congress Youth League secretary general Sindiso Magaqa said it would fight the release of the song in court and would sue the group for defamation.
"If they release that stupid song, we will hit them hard," Magaqa said.
Kganyago said the presenters had focused on the song because of the controversy it had attracted, disregarding the fact that it was not on the playlist.
"You don’t just go to the archives and retrieve a song without approval. This rule applies to all presenters in all stations," he said.
The same group released the song, Msholozi, after President Jacob Zuma's clan name, before he was elected ANC president in 2007. It called for him to be president and for corruption charges against him to be dropped.
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Ukhozi FM DJs suspended for playing Malema song
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buddi
Posted 549 days agoNeoBlack
it is ok to hate malema, but it helps if in your hatred, you still maiantain some degree of reasonableness
Razzo
Posted 549 days agoSuiGeneris
Compare apples with apples.....malema's Shoot the boer song is about white genocide !
What is this malema song about ???
buddi
However, you cannot compare a song like 'shoot the boer' which calls for killing (or at a minimum maiming) a certain group of people to a song badmouthing Malema. I don't think the song says anything about killing Malema.
augustrain
BensonMbewe
But the now played song seems innocent as it simply exposes the unruly youth whose mouth and tongue are not connected to his brain cortex.
Razzo
Mnbvcxz0
Posted 549 days agobuddi
Mnbvcxz0
UDFSupporter
augustrain
ANC apartheid designed to keep citizens from moving freely and then using their tax money to enforce the new apartheid laws.
Quote from the witness "The controversial anti-Malema album and its title track Malema was distributed by the group’s record label Izingane Zoma company to radio stations yesterday.
Music stores who have not received stock yet say that customers have come into their outlets nationwide asking for the album.
“Demand for the product has gone through the roof… we should receive the stock within the week of release,” said Jet Music’s product manager Shiraaz Moola. The same goes for Dakota music, which is hoping to have the album in its stores by the end of next week.
The group’s producer, Busani Khuzwayo, said it is a coincidence that the song was released on the same day as the announcement of Malema’s disciplinary hearing verdict"
nomakanjaane
The_Only_1
Posted 549 days agonomakanjaane
augustrain
Posted 549 days ago“Demand for the product uMalema has gone through the roof… we should receive the stock within the week of release,” said Jet Music’s product manager Shiraaz Moola. The same goes for Dakota music, which is hoping to have the album in its stores by the end of next week." Unquote
Soon every taxi and mp3 player will be pumping this song thanks ANCYL for the free publicity!
Razzo
Posted 549 days agoaugustrain
KTB is a racist incitement to white genocide that is why it is banned by the courts.
See genocidewatch.org/southafrica.html
staren
I mean its the same argument - saying you can continue doing something (that is potentially dangerous) because so far nothing bad has happened as a result...?
BensonMbewe
Call for wisdom,Mandela is still alive and the blessing of living so many years around,is wisdom for us younger folks.The older the Mandelas and the Tutus are,the greater the wealth of wisdom they have to impart in us coz of their vast experience.The TRC was actually saying 4gv & 4get...U sing the song,it will work something in u or other hearers,coz WORDS ARE NOT EMPTY in themslves,that is why ppo end up killing themself after listening to and singing Rock music.U can do some research on this...Words are not empty...
DpuoMoholisa
BensonMbewe
Posted 549 days agoHow dare one opens one's mouth carelesly,even against a National leader like he does!I think he has God to thank so much for the place he finds himself in.If he had been in some of the countries that we know of,here in Africa,Malema should have long been DEPORTED from planet EARTH with his externals six feet in the belly of the earth for disrespecting top leaders like he does.South Africa is a true democracy,I tell u,when u compare it around...
augustrain
augustrain
Posted 549 days agoKTB is a racist incitement to white genocide that is why it is banned by the courts.
See genocidewatch(.)org/southafrica.html
ray24
bis_k'hallawaya
augustrain
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