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WORLDVIEW: Fasten seatbelts for week of high drama, even by SA standards
Rumour and speculation remains just that. But one thing is certain. This is going to be a week to remember for South Africans everywhere.
By Alec Hogg
During the early 1990s, as South Africa started changing, the much-maligned SABC suddenly became a viable career option for every journalist. It was a halcyon period for the national broadcaster – a brief window in time when the National Party's hands were off and the ANC's hands not yet on.
But it took a while for the grip of the old guard to be prized from the tiller. As Economics Editor, it was my privilege to blood many previously banned ANC leaders on television. Among them trade union firebrand Jay Naidoo, whose interview prompted the SABC's chairman Dr Christo Viljoen to demand that I be fired for "allowing a communist onto the kassie."
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