Broadcaster fails in bid to stop strike

NEWSWATCH: Unions are happy that they have defeated a bid by the SABC to stop them striking; the Johannesburg Labour Court yesterday dismissed the broadcaster's bid to prevent the strike, reports IOL, which also reports that the unions are unfazed by the broadcaster's ‘no work, no pay' policy. Meanwhile, Rhoda Kadalie, human rights activist, writing in Business Day, provides a blow-by-blow account of how - and why - the national broadcaster has gone downhill.