Of petty cash‚ parking attendants and the public broadcaster – by Evita Bezuidenhout

11 July 2016 - 12:05 By TMG Digital

Does every Hlaudi have a silver lining? That’s the question posed by satirist Evita Bezuidenhout in a YouTube video unpacking current affairs and the controversies swirling around the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). “What is going on? Ag mense‚ it’s called freedom of expression‚” she says‚ recalling how former apartheid president PW Botha would call up the broadcaster and instruct them: “Don’t give that news because I want the news to be changed.”Nowadays‚ she said‚ chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was keeping all the news “nice and comfortable so people don’t get upset”.Motsoeneng‚ she quipped‚ could have worked at the SABC in the days of apartheid as a parking attendant – a job that did not require a matric certificate.What will the SABC do for petty cash when advertisers abandon them‚ she asks.For Evita Bezuidenhout’s take on the news‚ watch here: ..

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