‘Propaganda much?’ – SABC’s protest footage decision panned on Twitter

The decision by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to no longer show “footage of people burning public institutions” trended on Twitter on Friday morning.While the social media discourse was dominated by retweets of chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reasoning for his decision – that “continuing to promote” violent service delivery protests encourages copycat actions – it was widely criticised for curtailing expression.