The Democratic Alliance (DA) will on Thursday launch the local government election campaign TV advert it says the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) tried to censor. The launch of the commercial‚ which will take place in Crossroads in Nyanga‚ comes a day after the DA said it had “been reliably informed that SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has now banned the reading of newspaper headlines on all SABC radio stations”.“The reading of the morning’s newspaper headlines is a practice on radio and TV stations worldwide‚ particularly on news and talk radio‚ as a method to review stories currently in the news cycle‚” the party said.“The banning of the reading of newspapers can only be viewed as yet another attempt by Motsoeneng to censor any negative news stories about the African National Congress (ANC) on SABC radio stations ahead of the local government election.”This‚ the party claimed‚ “is part of an on-going programme driven by Motsoeneng to only portray ‘sunshine news’ about the ANC on SABC stations”.Other actions claimed by the party include the “attempted banning of call-ins; the canning of Vuyo Mvoko’s talk show‚ the canning of ‘The Editors’ on SAfm; banning of footage of violent protests; and censorship and delaying of opposition TV adverts”.The public broadcaster had said it would not flight the DA’s advert until all parties participating in the August 3 polls had been confirmed by the Independent Electoral Commission.Just over a week ago‚ the DA posted the ad on its YouTube channel...