The new SABC as old-style censors
Cartoonist Zapiro recently pictured the South African Broadcasting Corporation as the SANC, reflecting its political control by the ruling African National Congress through its appointees, CEO Dali Mpofu and news director Snuki Zikalala:
Jean Barker, at 24.com Entertainment, writes that often, censorship is more interesting than a film or book itself, “publicising the very film it was intended to make disappear”, and reviews some films that the SABC has declined to show. She recognises that this doesn’t technically amount to “banning”, but that the effect is for practical purposes similar. Hanging her story on Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki, which the SABC cancelled at the last minute, Barker writes:
“Winners write history,” as the saying goes. And the ANC won the struggle, or the War on Apartheid, at least politically speaking. Now, films like Cry Freedom and Come Back, Africa aren’t rebel yells, they’re a record of our history. And the ANC-aligned SABC is doing its own censorship. While it could be said, correctly in some cases, that they’ve chosen not to show stuff because it’s just bloody boring, sometimes it’s not clear whether it’s really their right to decide for us what’s interesting.
She selects four films, two from the Apartheid era, and two from the ANC era, to illustrate a thought-provoking point.
I im the future of south africa but i don’t know where do i come from, and it’s only the truth of my history that will open my mind and and my way forward, and those films are my history & i have the right to know my history, so bring them on.
Let’s be proud of who we are, so we can move forward, not living our legecy behind.
Movies must be showned on TV. specialy SABC)
we want to know our history and the sarfaration of our four Fathers back in the days of apartaid. Trueth will set as free