News24 reports that two advocacy groups have indicated their concern with "what seems to be an endemic culture of sexual harassment" within the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).  

In a joint statement, the Right to Know Campaign (R2K) and SOS said they felt that the "culture of silence around the matter" was cause for concern.  They added that the allegations that have emerged were of a serious nature and had to be resolved as soon as possible.  They criticised SABC leadership for not applying its sexual harassment policy more stringently and said:  “It is clear that this has been continuing for a long time and has been successfully kept under the radar by the leadership at the institution.  Further, this raises serious questions about the institution's knowledge, concern and ability to address issues of rape and sexual violence in the workplace."  The groups called for workshops to equip employees with strategies that make it easy to identify when sexual harassment was occurring and how to confront it and demanded that a policy be created to protect all whistleblowers “in order to reinforce and encourage issues of sexual harassment to be reported without any victimisation or negative repercussions."

• Read the full original report by Kaveel Singh at News24

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