The SABC is facing a multi-million rand lawsuit over its public claims that some of its employees had sabotaged President CyrilRamaphosa when it aired an embarrassing video clip of a speech last year.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation is facing a multi-million rand lawsuit over its public claims that some of its employees had sabotaged President Cyril Ramaphosa when it aired an embarrassing video clip of a speech last year.
One of the employees, Megan Lubke, executive producer of the show Full View, who was cleared on charges of gross negligence and dereliction of duty, is now pursuing a case of defamation against the SABC, its executives and board of directors.
Lubke further argued through her lawyers that the statement which was subsequently repeated in interviews by SABC’s executives and other media houses, portrayed her as being untrustworthy and unprofessional. “Prima facie by definition means ‘at the face of it’ and cannot be reasonably construed as the final conclusion without further interrogation such as the disciplinary hearing … SABC and the third defendant always knew and understood that the evidence of sabotage related to the employees involved in the physical editing and flighting of the clip … Suspicion was not, subjectively and objectively speaking, relating to the plaintiff,” said SABC in its court papers.
The SABC, however, argues that this claim is also unfounded and not legally sound. “The plaintiff makes no effort whatsoever to sustain and prove this claim, as a matter of fact, the plaintiff remains employed by the first defendant and continues to earn salaries from the first defendant,” the SABC stated in its papers.although acting spokesperson Mmoni Seapolelo confirmed it had filed a plea on March 24.
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