NATIONAL NEWS - Four of the eight the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) journalists, who launched an urgent Constitutional Court application over their suspensions, will now challenge their dismissals in the Labour Court on Thursday and seek payment for their legal fees.
Yesterday evening, termination letters were sent to Jacques Steenkamp, Krivani Pillay, Suna Venter and Foeta Krige for what the broadcaster has described as behaviour that undermines the conduct of the public broadcaster.
The journalists have been vocal about the low morale in SABC newsrooms and their disagreement with its new policy banning the broadcast of visuals of violent protests.
Solidarity's Anton van der Bijl, who has been representing the four journalists, says the only reason given for the dismissals has been that they failed to give motivation to their bosses about why they should keep their jobs.
