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News24 reports that the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) advised on Saturday that Phathsiwa Magopeni, the public broadcaster’s axed head of news, intended to legally challenge her dismissal.
This after she was fired on Friday, a month after a disciplinary hearing headed by advocate Nazeer Cassi, found her guilty of misconduct, and instructed the board to find an appropriate sanction. The proceedings were related to the erroneous airing of an interdicted Special Assignments episode. Citing a "breakdown in the trust relationship" between Magopeni and the broadcaster, SABC group chief executive officer Madoda Mxakwe indicated in the letter confirming the dismissal that she had not offered mitigating factors for consideration, despite requesting extensions. Magopeni had on Thursday written to the company, saying she was not obliged to provide her mitigating factors, and charging that the process, recommendation and sanction were not in line with the SABC’s disciplinary code and procedure. She described the proceedings as incompetent. She had previously claimed that the disciplinary action against her was a result of political interference after the ANC’s Fikile Mbalula blamed the public broadcaster for the party’s dismal performance in the elections. On Saturday, SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) chairperson Sbu Ngalwa said that Magopeni had been treated unfairly by the SABC.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons at News24
- Read too, SABC fires head of news Phathiswa Magopeni, at News24
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