{"id":154195,"date":"2017-02-01T08:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=154195"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T06:56:32","slug":"hlaudi-sees-himself-as-a-prophet-sent-to-lead-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/154195\/hlaudi-sees-himself-as-a-prophet-sent-to-lead-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hlaudi sees himself as a prophet sent to lead South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng says South Africans love him, no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial Motsoeneng was speaking at the Grace Bible Church in Soweto at the memorial service of gospel star Lundi Tyamara on Tuesday. The gospel artist died on Friday after a long struggle with TB and liver complications.<\/p>\n<p>Hlaudi went on to reference the Bible, saying that people will always be led by someone that they didn&#8217;t want at first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bishop will tell you that when you read the Bible, [it says] you will not be led by someone that you want. God is going to give you someone that you do not want. And I am one of them,&#8221; Motsoeneng said.<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng, who was introduced as someone who supports creative arts, said that when he implemented 90% local music policy at the SABC he created employment in SA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy that I champion 90%. People can feel the transformation, they can touch it, they can eat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng said the media had been overly critical of the policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All media were saying that if we introduce 90% people will listen to other broadcasters. I don&#8217;t know what kind of South Africans they are. All broadcasters, including community television, should play 90% music. It should not just be SABC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvWMFxRWJC0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/south-africa-loves-hlaudi-no-matter-what-says-hlaudi-20170131\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Hlaudi\u2019s 90% local policy will stay put: SABC\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/152253\/hlaudis-90-local-policy-will-stay-put-sabc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hlaudi\u2019s 90% local policy will stay put: SABC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng says South Africans love him, no matter what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":124969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-154195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154195","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154209,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154195\/revisions\/154209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}