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African Content Movement (ACM) leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being approached by other political parties in the council to take over from ANC mayor Malekula Melato.

ACM leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng being lobbied for Maluti-a-Phofung mayor role

Motsoeneng says he wants to “take over properly” as coalition talks continue in the troubled Maluti-a-Phofung municipality

The hole nine yards: Pothholed roads and a fallen electric pole, which took more than a month to be repaired. (Lunga Mzangwe/M&G)

No services, no jobs, as businesses flee Free State municipality

Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse

Hlaudi Motsoeneng. File photo

Hlaudi mulls joining forces with Ace after elections

The disgraced former SABC boss also has ambitions of becoming premier of the Free State

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Editorial: Media must hold media to account

There’s a reason those in power seek to limit journalists’ freedoms: our stories shine a light on their wrongdoing. However, we must also speak up when the wrongdoing is inside…

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Editorial: Political meddling won’t save the SABC

For years, in moves that harked back to the repressive regime of the Nats, the public broadcaster has been used by the party as its political football in internal factional…

Former president Jacob Zuma.

The Zondo commission of evasion

Obfuscation, non sequiturs, outright lies, senseless babble, curry breaks — and we’re paying for it all

Broadcaster bodies say claims that a recent skills audit is unrelated to retrenchments are ‘irrational’

Unions cry foul over SABC dismissal costs and retrenchments

Broadcaster bodies say claims that a recent skills audit is unrelated to retrenchments are ‘irrational’

Former SABC chief operating officer, Chris Maroleng.

Ex-manager says Maroleng was on SABC dismissal ‘hit list’

Allegations have surfaced in court papers that the state broadcaster’s former head was purposefully pushed out by chief executive Madoda Mxakwe and board chairperson Bongumusa…

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Editorial: Capture virus hits again

State Security Agency still cannot produce the security clearance certificate required for the incumbent, Baptiste Dungu, to occupy the top post at the Onderstepoort Biological…

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng signed the allegedly ‘unlawful’ deal with MultiChoice that is under scrutiny at the Zondo commission. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

MultiChoice and SABC in cahoots over control mechanism

Controversy over the set-top box, which has delayed the government’s rollout of digital television for 16 years, rages on at the Zondo commission

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Doors, chairs and what lies between

One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them

Scarily funny: Former SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng testifying at the Zondo commission this week. (Antonio Muchave/Sowetan)

Hlaudi put me flat on my back

Tuesday. It’s mid-afternoon. A bolt of pain pierces my lower back and brings me instantly awake. I make it halfway upright before my right hip locks, halting any further movement…

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng also refuted the allegation that the so-called protest policy amounted to an all out ban on the coverage of protest action. (Felix Dlangamandla/Gallo/Netwerk24)

Motsoeneng: ‘There was nothing wrong with warning SABC journos to adapt’

The former SABC COO distanced himself from the decision to suspend the so-called SABC 8

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo Archive)

Cyril was ‘sabotaged’ in prime time address blunder — SABC

The national broadcaster has “strong prima facie evidence” indicating that the broadcast of the incorrect clip was deliberate

During his appearance before the commission, Hlaudi Motsoeneng said he saw the engagements with the Gupta family as “an opportunity to capture them”. (Thulani Mbele/Gallo/Sowetan)

I wanted to capture the Guptas — Motsoeneng

During his appearance before the Zondo commission, the former SABC chief operating officer said he met with the controversial family countless times

Hlaudi Motsoeneng. (Gallo)
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LIVESTREAM: Hlaudi Motsoeneng appears before state capture commission

The former SABC chief of operations will give evidence at the Zondo commission on Tuesday

Broadcaster bodies say claims that a recent skills audit is unrelated to retrenchments are ‘irrational’

No evidence of ANC interference at SABC, inquiry says

But the commission of inquiry finds ‘the spectre of the ANC hovered over the newsroom’

Hlaudi’s congregants: Defenders of Hlaudi Motsoeneng (some ANC members and others belonging to the Ses’Khona People’s Rights Movement) protesting in support of the SABC executive. (David Harrison)

The biggest mess ever broadcast

The fight for press freedom and against Hlaudi’s antics is documented by one of the SABC8

African Content Movement leader Hlaudi Motsoeneg and Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama address the media.

Hlaudi and Mngxitama speak out

African Content Movement leader Hlaudi Motsoeneg and Black First Land First leader Andile Mngxitama address the media.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng. (Gallo)

Motsoeneng ‘will gladly’ testify at Zondo commission

The controversial former SABC chief operations officer warned the ANC will ‘be in trouble’