{"id":88,"date":"2016-07-07T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentnewsgrid.org\/wordpress\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:00:45","slug":"online-petition-against-the-south-african-bureau-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/2016\/07\/07\/online-petition-against-the-south-african-bureau-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Online petition against the South African Bureau of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"zxx\"><span lang=\"zxx\">As journalists continue to protest against the SABC for censoring and skewing their media coverage, an online petition \u201cMotsoeneng out, free the SABC\u201d has started in support of journalist protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">The Petition is to be handed over to the Communications Minister, Faith Muthambi and the board of SABC. \u00a0The petition demands the removal of Hlaudi Motsoeneng and his policies as well as the reinstatement of journalists who spoke out against him. The \u201cMotsoeneng out, free the SABC\u201d petition makes it clear that Motsoeneng \u201ccan try muzzle the media, but he can\u2019t silence the internet!\u201d Various social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are being used which has resulted in 18,391 signatures so far.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">For anyone who wishes to sign the petition go to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/en\/sabc_attack_7\/?tkpGEab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/en\/sabc_attack_7\/?tkpGEab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">Written by: Jody Davison<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As journalists continue to protest against the SABC for censoring and skewing their media coverage, an online petition \u201cMotsoeneng out, free the SABC\u201d has started in support of journalist protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":90,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[25,27,28,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentnews.africa\/sng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}