South African Paula Slier to head new bureau
When MultiChoice dropped RT, the television voice of Vladimir Putin, earlier this year there was debate about whether it was a good thing. Was it valuable to get Putin’s perspective on the Ukraine war, or was it just misleading propaganda?
RT intends opening up bureaus across Africa, run out of the new Joburg HQ. It appears to be part of a concerted effort to consolidate Russia’s diplomatic influence in a continent that has been more open than most to Moscow’s position on Ukraine. Of course, hosting a bureau is different from broadcasting from here. RT will not be subjected to SA’s broadcasting regulatory regime, which would bind it to a code of conduct. Like the journalists from CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera, it will just be operating from here.
We want them to spend their money, create jobs and write about what a great city Joburg is . For this, we have to welcome and treat all foreign correspondents the same way, and cannot pick only those we like. Putin does that. Not us.
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