{"id":67096,"date":"2024-05-28T06:14:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime"},"modified":"2024-05-28T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:36:54","slug":"sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","title":{"rendered":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Editorial team decided &#8216;there was no new angle to broadcast&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview with former president Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral video, Zuma accused the broadcaster of banning an interview he had with its political team last week.\u201cI had an interview with the SABC on May 22, wherein they were seeking to have the views from me as a leader of a new party. I expressed myself in what I know is a democratic country. I have just heard the SABC blocked that interview,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something out of this world because South Africa is a democratic country. I think I am the only one so far being blocked by big broadcasting stations. Why are there individuals not allowed to be known by the country while others speak at any given time? I don&#8217;t understand what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI last heard of this in the hard days of apartheid where many people were not allowed to speak. They were banned not to say anything. Not to say their views, politically in particular.\u201d The SABC has dismissed the claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegations are not true. From the onset of the formation of Zuma\u2019s party the public broadcaster has covered the party\u2019s activities,\u201d the channel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn May 22, Zuma\u2019s team contacted the SABC\u2019s political editor to cover the party\u2019s announcement in Durban. The SABC responded to the invitation to cover the story. The team was allocated less than 10 minutes and was told not to ask questions. In this coverage, Zuma repeated everything he said at the rally on May 18, which the SABC covered extensively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, the team was not able to explore any new angle that would have deemed the story newsworthy. After the normal editorial processes to broadcast the story the editorial team decided there was no new angle to broadcast it. It is therefore disingenuous to suggest the SABC has banned Zuma or his views.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Editorial team decided &#8216;there was no new angle to broadcast&#8217; The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview with former president Jacob Zuma. In a viral video, Zuma accused the broadcaster of banning an interview he had with its political team last week.\u201cI had an interview with the SABC on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-67096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Editorial team decided &#039;there was no new angle to broadcast&#039; The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editorial team decided &#039;there was no new angle to broadcast&#039; The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"534\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\"},\"wordCount\":348,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\",\"name\":\"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime - South Africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Editorial team decided 'there was no new angle to broadcast' The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":534,\"caption\":\"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime - South Africa","description":"Editorial team decided 'there was no new angle to broadcast' The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime","og_description":"Editorial team decided 'there was no new angle to broadcast' The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","og_site_name":"South Africa","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":534,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime","datePublished":"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime"},"wordCount":348,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Africa","South-Africa"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime","name":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime - South Africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg","datePublished":"2024-05-28T06:14:36+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-28T06:36:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Editorial team decided 'there was no new angle to broadcast' The SABC has denied allegations it banned an interview wit ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/05\/sm_1716865535.535936.jpg","width":750,"height":534,"caption":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/sabc-denies-not-giving-zuma-airtime#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SABC denies not giving Zuma airtime"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}