Mpofu Accuses Sabc Of Promoting Government Narrative On Gnu

Senior Counsel for Umkhonto we Sizwe MK party, Dali Mpofu has argued that the South African Broadcasting Corporation SABC is not entitled to repeat the term Government of National Unity simply because it is used by the government.

Mpofu says that the SABC should not be a mouthpiece for the Democratic Alliance DA and African National Congress ANC by adopting and spreading the term.

He also argues that the GNU was created by the two parties with the statement of intent being signed by ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula and DA Federal Council Chairperson Helen Zille.

Mpofu is pleading his case in the High Court in Johannesburg, where the MK party has brought the SABC to court over its use of the term GNU.

President Ramaphosa is entitled to use whatever fig leaf he wants to use to his colleagues in the ANC. Thats not what were debating here. What were debating is whether the SABC is entitled to adopt that fig leaf and spread it to the country as the gospel truth.When the author, this is one of the two signatories to the statement of intent, says she should know more than all of us.