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Cope: SABC receiving directives from Luthuli House

By Azad Essa
24 Aug 2010
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Cope said that they have concrete evidence that the SABC receives news bulletins from Luthuli House and that their news and current affairs programmes coincide with government propaganda programmes. According to the party's sources, SABC head of news presented the ANC's new "social reconstruction" policy to the SABC's news reporters, which would define the news agenda. The party said they've submitted questions to the National Assembly to force the Minister of Communications to come clean on the matter. Read more: TimesLive.

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