News24 reports that Wednesday’s High Court interdict against the SABC's policy to not show footage of violent protests will be used in Thursday's Labour Court case in which four of the employees that were fired by the broadcaster will be challenging their dismissal.
Trade union Solidarity's Anton van der Bijl said: "It would impact our case because to a certain extent the SABC and court are of a view that the current policy is unlawful. Therefore anything that follows from that policy, such as the disciplinary hearings, the suspensions and the dismissals are unlawful and unconstitutional. Our priority [in the Labour Court] is that the dismissals and suspensions be set aside and that they go back to work." The SABC this week sacked seven journalists for disagreeing with a decision to censor coverage of protests before the disciplinary cases against some of them had been concluded.
- Read this report by Ahmed Areff in full at News24
- Read Solidarity’s press statement at Solidarity online
- Read too, Fired SABC journalists want jobs back, at BDLive
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