The public broadcaster has rejected the party’s demand that it not refer to the ruling coalition as a government of national unity as an attack on media freedom
The South African National Editors’ Forum will apply to join as amicus curiae in the casehas brought against the SABC to bar it from calling the ruling coalition a government of national unity.
In a founding affidavit signed by Zuma, his party seeks to fashion an argument that greater rights than media freedom are at stake becauseis a racist formation that undermines the constitutional call for political redress. “The effect of the repeated impugned conduct is to contribute to the golden rule of political propaganda known as the big lie technique and infamously employed by the fascist German Nazi Party.”
He said the application was urgent, given the extent of the alleged harm to the public and the reach of the SABC. “No cause has been defined around which the nation intends to unite, for or against. Not all major parties have been included.”
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