EXPOSED: The SABC’S 50-Year Lie to South Africa REVEALED. As the nation marks a half-century of television, a DARK TRUTH emerges: the broadcaster was NEVER designed to serve you. Conceived by apartheid’s architects as a PROJECTOR FOR PROPAGANDA, it has simply traded one master for another in a sordid cycle of state capture and public BETRAYAL.
Forget the fluffy nostalgia. Television arrived late because the racist regime FEARED its power. They knew a screen could show their citizens a world beyond race hate and spark an UNSTOPPABLE REVOLUTION. When they finally flipped the switch in 1976, it was to CONTROL the narrative, not liberate it. The SABC was BORN IN SIN.
And what of the democratic miracle? A SHAM. The post-94 “transformation” was a brief interlude before the Zuma-Motsoeneng cabal SYSTEMATICALLY GUTTED the broadcaster. Editorial independence was EXECUTED. Billions were plundered. A once-proud institution was reduced to a patronage-fueled ZOMBIE, staggering from crisis to crisis while parroting the line of its political captors.
Now, as it teeters on financial collapse, the final INSULT is delivered. The SABC is not just corrupted—it’s OBSOLETE. It is being euthanized NOT by politicians, but by a public that has FINALLY TURNED IT OFF. While TikTok and Netflix feed a hungry nation real content, the SABC begs for license fees to fund its bloated corpse of reruns and state-sanctioned news.
The chilling implication is clear: South Africa’s public broadcaster has FAILED at every historic turn—first as a tool of oppression, then as a prize for looters, and now as a relic NO ONE WANTS. Its 50th anniversary isn’t a celebration; it’s a FUNERAL for the very idea of a united national conversation.
The screen that was meant to reflect a nation now only shows its broken, captured, and abandoned soul.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
