News24 reports that an SABC journalist said on Monday that the climate at the public broadcaster has left many journalists feeling stressed and fearing for their jobs.  

Staff were generally confused and unhappy about recent happenings at the broadcaster, the journalist, speaking on condition of anonymity, indicated.  “They’re stressed out, their integrity’s being questioned.  When new decisions are made, it doesn’t come to us.  It gets put out to the media, and we’re just expected to comply,” he said.  Acting group CEO Jimi Matthews resigned on Monday, while three senior staff members were suspended last week.  Meanwhile, three civil groups, Media Monitoring Africa, the Freedom of Expression Institute, and the Save Our SABC Coalition, have criticised the SABC for policies they said amounted to censorship.  

• Read this report by Paul Herman in full at News24
• Read too, Latest top resignation highlights crisis at SABC, at BDLive
• And also, Three SABC journalists take suspension fight to ConCourt, at News24

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