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ANA reports that a fund set up to assist axed SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists has been extended to help other news reporters, including the nine who were recently dismissed by Gupta-owned television news channel ANN7.
The fund, called the Media Freedom Protection Fund, will assist journalists who need protection from unfair labour practices and financial support. “The aftermath of the SABC journalists (seven of whom have since been reinstated) has showed that journalists are not done yet. Nine ANN7 staffers are battling unfair dismissals, eTV staffers have no right to organise themselves as workers, and there are many media practitioners in the private sector who are going through the same, some face the worst situations in the workplace,” said SOS Coalition coordinator Sekoetlane Phamodi. The ANN7 journalists were summarily fired in June for allegedly bringing the company into disrepute after they refused to be addressed by ANC Youth League president Collen Maine at the company premises in Midrand. There have been several reports about ANN7 employees raising concerns about poor working conditions and low salaries.
- Read this report by Gertrude Makhafola in full at IOL News
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