{"id":152253,"date":"2017-01-24T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=152253"},"modified":"2017-01-24T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:06:20","slug":"hlaudis-90-local-policy-will-stay-put-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/152253\/hlaudis-90-local-policy-will-stay-put-sabc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hlaudi&#8217;s 90% local policy will stay put: SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has confirmed that Hlaudi Motsoeneng&#8217;s policy of 90% local television and radio will remain in place at the SABC.<\/p>\n<p>SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago confirmed to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/hlaudis-quotas-and-policies-to-remain-7489370\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Argus<\/a><\/strong> that the public broadcaster would continue its controversial policy of 90% local music on SABC-owned radios and 80% local television programs, despite Motsoeneng&#8217;s departure from the company.<\/p>\n<p>Kgyanyago noted that the decision to implement a 90% local was not purely\u00a0Motsoeneng&#8217;s decision and that there was no reason why the broadcaster would change its policies following the embattled COO&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s personalising the initiative. Many people have left companies after being a face behind an initiative. So does that need to change when they\u2019re gone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 90% policy has been met with a mixed reception by the South African public with many praising the SABC&#8217;s initiative to promote local artists while others expect a continued lack of high-quality international content to be a death sentence for the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">Motsoeneng currently still holds the position of\u00a0group executive for corporate affairs at the SABC, despite a December High Court ruling stating that he would not be allowed to hold any position at the embattled state broadcaster.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/151433\/committee-report-confirms-hlaudi-wont-face-the-music-for-sabc-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\">Committee report confirms Hlaudi won\u2019t face the music for SABC decline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has confirmed that ousted COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng&#8217;s policy of 90% local television and radio will remain in place at the SABC despite the embattled COO&#8217;s departure from the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-152253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152253","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=152253"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152297,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152253\/revisions\/152297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}