{"id":125571,"date":"2016-06-03T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T10:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=125571"},"modified":"2016-06-03T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T10:47:33","slug":"watch-motsoeneng-deserves-a-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/125571\/watch-motsoeneng-deserves-a-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Motsoeneng deserves a gold medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mzwakhe Mbuli, a popular poet and Mbaqanga singer, has recorded a song to thank that SABC and its COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, for a policy to <span class=\"st\">play 90% local music across its 18 radio stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 90% radio content policy was implemented on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster has since announced that it plans to roll out a similar policy for its television stations.<\/p>\n<p>On the sidelines of an SABC event that awarded production contracts to local players earlier this week, Motsoeneng told Fin24 that SABC 3 will start broadcasting 80% content from July 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the voice of reason, the season of hope has come,&#8221; sings Mbuli.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SABC has delivered the good news. We applaud the monumental decision, 90% of South African content. Bravo Hlaudi Motsoeneng on your progressive team, bravo. You all deserve gold medals. Dankie baie, baie dankie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQtvs2yzkH0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/123403\/sabc-radio-stations-to-play-90-local-music\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SABC radio stations to play 90% local music<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/125229\/sabc-channel-will-have-80-local-content-by-july-motsoeneng\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SABC channel will have 80% local content by July: Motsoeneng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/124967\/watch-thank-you-sabc-song-praising-motsoeneng\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch: Awkward \u201cThank you SABC\u201d song praising Motsoeneng<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mzwakhe Mbuli, a popular poet and Mbaqanga singer, has recorded a song to thank that SABC and its COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, for a policy to play 90% local music across its 18 radio stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,667],"class_list":["post-125571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125579,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125571\/revisions\/125579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}