{"id":62549,"date":"2014-07-11T09:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=62549"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T07:33:32","slug":"journalists-must-have-licences-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/62549\/journalists-must-have-licences-sabc\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists must have licences: SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will make a formal submission to Communications Minister Faith Muthambi that journalists have a licence to practice, The New Age reported on Friday, 11 July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be making these submissions. I am surprised at how Sanef [SA National Editors&#8217; Forum] has opposed this. This means that they are not doing their job properly,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He said there must be consequences for errant journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported that he was putting the final touches to an editorial plan that would be submitted to Muthambi.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Motsoeneng proposed that journalists have a licence to practice like those in the medical and law professions.<\/p>\n<p>He said journalists who acted unprofessionally should be stripped of their licences.<\/p>\n<p>Sanef condemned the proposal, saying it revealed Motsoeneng\u2019s ignorance about journalistic practice in a democracy.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"SABC COO \u201ccleared of all wrongdoing\u201d: Minister\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/62465\/sabc-coo-cleared-of-all-wrongdoing-minister\/\"><strong>SABC COO \u201ccleared of all wrongdoing\u201d: Minister<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matsoeneng SABC appointment shocks public protector\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/62361\/matsoeneng-sabc-appointment-shocks-public-protector\/\"><strong>Matsoeneng SABC appointment shocks public protector<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hlaudi Motsoeneng will make a formal submission to Communications Minister Faith Muthambi that journalists have a licence to practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,8211,5396,667],"class_list":["post-62549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-faith-muthambi","tag-hlaudi-motsoeneng","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62551,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62549\/revisions\/62551"}],"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=62549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}