{"id":965867,"date":"2024-07-16T05:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965867"},"modified":"2024-07-16T05:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:46:37","slug":"mk-files-urgent-court-papers-against-sabc-over-gnu-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mk-files-urgent-court-papers-against-sabc-over-gnu-term\/","title":{"rendered":"MK files urgent court papers against SABC over GNU term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) has filed urgent papers in the High Court in Johannesburg to challenge the <em>South African Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s (SABC)<\/em> use of the term &#8220;Government of National Unity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The MK Party is asking the court to declare the <em>SABC&#8217;s<\/em> use of the term unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>In the court papers, MK Party leader Jacob Zuma argues that millions of South Africans rely on the public broadcaster as their primary news source.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma&#8217;s affidavit states that the current arrangement in South Africa does not meet the definitional elements of a GNU and claims that the use of the term &#8220;deliberately misleads the public&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>SABC<\/em> recently responded to the party&#8217;s cease and desist, describing the MK Party&#8217;s allegations as &#8220;untenable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The public broadcaster emphasised the proper channels for lodging a complaint and stated that the letter of demand was meritless and an irregular step.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | MK Party lays into the notion of the GNU, says it&#8217;s &#8216;meaningless&#8217;:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bK-IPkYnZ04?si=y1GIObE1Ie3GVnqb\" width=\"1060\" height=\"615\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Despite a notice of withdrawal by the MK Party, the Electoral Court has set down its application to set aside the election -for a hearing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5jkBj1E13b\">pic.twitter.com\/5jkBj1E13b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Franny Rabkin (@franstaar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/franstaar\/status\/1812914572850045293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MK Party is asking the court to declare the SABC&#8217;s use of the term unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}