Pickets to call for resignation of SABC board

The Freedom of Expression Network (FXN) is a network of civil society organisations, concerned citizen's groups and social movements supported by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI).

The intention is to register the fact that the SABC blacks the legitimacy that is necessary to resolve the current crisis at the SABC, and to call on the board to step down to make way for a more representative board, which should include labour and civil society representation.

The pickets are also being organised to express solidarity with SABC staff, whose working conditions are “being made intolerable” by internal strife. “The FXN would like to see the establishment of an independent but accountable public broadcaster, who represents all South Africans, rather than being a mouthpiece of a particular faction in the ruling African National Congress (ANC),” said the coalition in press statement.

Pickets are taking place 11am - 1pm simultaneously in the following provinces:

SABC Eastern Cape:
SABC Building
10 Boulevard Road
Bisho

SABC Western Cape:
209 Beach Road
Seapoint

SABC Mpumalanga:
Alroe Park Building,
Corner Andrew and Madiba drives
Nelspruit

SABC Free State:
Corner Kelner and Markgraaf streets
Bloemfontein

SABC Head Office:
Corner Artillery Road and Henley Road
Auckland Park