SowetanLive reports that striking SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) employees have called for the immediate dissolution of the public broadcaster’s board, which they accused of failing to lead and save jobs.  

Dozens of workers drove in a convoy from Auckland Park in Johannesburg to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Wednesday to protest against the ongoing retrenchments, which will see about 300 employees losing their jobs.  They handed over a memorandum of demands to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office.  Both the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) called on the board to be dissolved for having failed the SABC and its workers.  The protesting workers were supported by several political parties including Cope and the National People’s Front, which both lambasted the board and called on government to save the SABC.  CWU general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said the protests would continue on Thursday, when there would be a go-slow, which would be followed by another full-day strike on Friday.  Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson said they supported the strike action.  “We want the retrenchment process to be halted, [and] our alternatives which we presented to the SABC to be considered and implemented,” Du Buisson said.  Meantime, communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is set to meet with the SABC board and unions over the retrenchments.  Her spokesperson on Wednesday reiterated that the minister was against the retrenchments and said the meeting would be a step towards finding a "lasting solution".

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Isaac Mahlangu at SowetanLive

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