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Watch: SABC staff take to the streets to demand salary hike

Watch: SABC staff take to the streets to demand salary hike

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) building. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark

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Staff members from the SABC demand a 10% wage increase that the public broadcasting station declined because management said that the demand was not affordable.

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) staff members belonging to the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) picket outside the SABC in Auckland Park, 2 November 2017. The workers are demanding a wage increase. Picture: Tracy Lee Starkmore
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) building. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) staff members belonging to the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) picket outside the SABC in Auckland Park, 2 November 2017. The workers are demanding a wage increase. Picture: Tracy Lee Starkmore



 

The wage increase was due in April, while a journalist from the SABC said the public broadcaster had money because it had incurred an irregular R5-billion expenditure.

Watch the protest below:

 

 

 

 

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By Carlos Muchave
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