A popular South African radio presented has been fired by the
Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), for calling President Jacob Zuma a
"zombie" in a Facebook post, the privately owned News 24 site has
reported.
According to SABC spokesman, Kaizer Kganyago, he said OAP Ravi
Govender's contract was terminated because of concerns that he had
brought the public broadcaster into disrepute.
Although, the Radio Lotus presenter had earlier apologized for the post
that he said he had put up in anger after listening to a speech by the
President at the governing African National Congress' (ANC) policy
conference in the main city, Johannesburg, on Friday
“Just heard a Zombie Zuma giving a speech on the news. Massacring the beautiful English language. Uneducated creature. Even the other moron [Zimbabwe's President Robert] Mugabe speaks much better," he was reported to have said in the post which was later deleted.
Mr. Zuma’s son, Edward, accused Mr. Govender of hate speech and threatened legal action against him.
“We fail as a family to understand what prompted Ravi Govender to make
such a statement referring to our father as a zombie. Is this still part
of freedom of speech? We believe that this is the worst form of abuse
of democracy that many of our leaders fought so hard to achieve,” he was
quoted by Times Live as saying.
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