SABC Chiefs Idiotic Quotes Over Mbeki Documentary 4
Following their canning of the half hour documentary on Thabo Mbeki the various high ups at the SABC have been doing an absolute hilarious jig of dodging questions and producing idiotic quotes as they try and justify their decision and try to convince us that there was absolutely no political reason for it. This story in the Business Day is a veritable gold mine of idiotic quotes.
Here’s SABC CEO Dali Mpofu:Perhaps it’s from SABC3 Content Enteprises head Mvuso Mbebe:Where do you jump to the conclusion that it was political manipulation? Where do you get this notion?
Mpofu of course can only find the ominous ‘right-wing’ to blame for the controversy:According to sources within the broadcaster, content enterprises head Mvuso Mbebe told officials at SABC3 and in the content hub that it would be wrong to flight the film while Mbeki was still in office as the broadcaster needed to manage its relationship with the presidency.
I’m suprised he didn’t say right afterwards ”...war is peace and slavery is freedom”.In SA, any student of politics will tell you that what is referred to as liberal is the political right wing.
Nonsensical value-based and ideologically loaded right-wing vitriol should not be mistaken for legitimate public commentary.
Only nonsensical left wing vitriol is allowed! Not that Mpofu is a left winger or anything, he’s got some pretty sweet BEE deals going on but no doubt he’ll use it when it suits him.
Coming from a man who admitted on radio to not actually having seen the documentary before it was cancelled this quote by Mpofu is pretty idiotic:There can be no excuse for jumping to conclusions and taking sides in a dispute without even pretending to hear the other side of that dispute.
Well I’d love to hear both sides of the dispute. Perhaps you would like to show me the documentary in question?
But the award for most idiotic quote goes to SABC Content GM Yvonne Kgame:If you are going to be reckless and irresponsible, you might drop the Rand to nothing.
So next time you’ve got the urge to post something critical about Thabo Mbeki hold back because you might just ruin the economy.
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Good grief. And what also made me mad was last Sunday’s Interface programme, which was supposed to star our esteemed Minister of Safety and Security, but they pulled it at the very last minute, the substitute being something about the Native Club. Blergh.
Anton Harber, who has seen the documentary in question and found nothing untoward about it, rips Dali a new one over at his blog.
So… how is your political history?
Remember all those African presidents who started off with grand ideas about democracy and then placed themselves above the law and beyond criticism?
If you need a refresher course see Meredith, M (2005) The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence. Simon and Schuster Australia, Sydney
And my friends still try to convince me that SA is ‘different’ to the rest of Africa.
I don’t think this was a case of Mbeki actually telling the SABC to can the documentary because I doubt he actually saw it. There have been numerous articles and books published that have been ritical of Mbeki with nary a word from The Chief.
This is just the SABC doing some pre-emptive self censhorship of their own probably because it’s filled with Mbeki sycophants not so much beause of Mbeki himself.