News24 reports that trade unions Solidarity and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers’ Union (Bemawu) have consolidated their court cases to get Hlaudi Motsoeneng to pay the legal costs incurred defending the so-called SABC 8, whom they both represented.  

They originally brought separate cases for Motsoeneng to be held personally liable for the legal costs incurred.  Solidarity believes that former SABC COO Motsoeneng was behind the decision to fire the eight, the union's Johan Kruger said in a statement on Tuesday.  In a replying affidavit, Motsoeneng argued that claims that the decision came from him were baseless.  In September the Labour Court found that the SABC 8 were irregularly fired in July for speaking out against the SABC's policy to no longer air footage of violent protests.  The SABC subsequently rehired seven of the eight.

Read this report by James de Villiers in full at News24

Read Solidarity’s press statement in this regard at Solidarity online

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