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SowetanLive reports that as the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) prepares to release 303 workers from its employ, the public broadcaster has been urged not to retrench people with a physical disability
Blind SA has written to the SABC board and SABC’s group executive for radio Nada Wotshela asking them to retain people in its employ with disabilities. Blind SA CEO Jace Nair pointed out that people with disability were already disadvantaged in the formal employment market. He said: “Blind SA is concerned that blind, partially sighted and other people with disability employed as journalists, presenters, talk-show hosts and producers at the SABC are being retrenched, further affecting on the broadcaster’s challenge of meeting the employment equity targets in having a minimum of 2% of employees with disability.” Nair advised on Monday that his organisation had so far received complaints from 11 employees with disabilities who were facing retrenchment. Reportedly, most blind people at the SABC work in the TV licensing office and the call centre, which are facing closure. SA Disability Alliance chairperson Marina Clarke said the SABC matter would be discussed by her executive committee in a meeting to be held on Wednesday. “We have a big problem if people with disability are targeted in the work environment because SA was one of the first signatories of the United Nation’s convention on the rights of people with disability,” said Clarke.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lindile Sifile at SowetanLive
- Read too, Managers at SABC ‘cruel’, on page 5 of The Citizen of 19 January 2021
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