{"id":398086,"date":"2017-07-04T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/04\/sa-journalist-sacked-for-calling-zuma-a-zombie\/"},"modified":"2017-07-04T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:52:28","slug":"sa-journalist-sacked-for-calling-zuma-a-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/04\/sa-journalist-sacked-for-calling-zuma-a-zombie\/","title":{"rendered":"SA journalist \u2018sacked for calling Zuma a zombie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"468\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/xJacob-Zuma-696x468.jpg.pagespeed.ic.sw3T54Gy1V.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jacob Zuma\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"161075540\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A popular radio presenter in South Africa has been fired by the public broadcaster, SABC, for calling President\u00a0<strong>Jacob Zuma<\/strong>\u00a0a \u201czombie\u201d in a Facebook post, the privately owned News 24 site has\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Lotus presenter Ravi Govender\u2019s contract was terminated because of concerns that he had brought the public broadcaster into disrepute, SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago was quoted by News24 as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Govender has not commented since his dismissal, but had earlier apologised for the post that he said he had put up in anger after listening to a speech by the scandal-hit Mr Zuma at the governing African National Congress\u2019 (ANC) policy conference in the main city, Johannesburg, on Friday<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cJust heard a Zombie Zuma giving a speech on the news. Massacring the beautiful English language. Uneducated creature. Even the other moron [Zimbabwe\u2019s President Robert] Mugabe speaks much better,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he was reported to have said in the post which was later deleted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Zuma\u2019s son, Edward, accused Mr Govender of hate speech, and threatened legal action against him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cWe 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,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he was quoted by the\u00a0Times Live news site as saying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Zuma has refused to bow to public pressure to resign despite being dogged by allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular radio presenter in South Africa has been fired by the public broadcaster, SABC, for calling President\u00a0Jacob Zuma\u00a0a \u201czombie\u201d in a Facebook post, the privately owned News 24 site has\u00a0reported. Radio Lotus presenter Ravi Govender\u2019s contract was terminated because of concerns that he had brought the public broadcaster into disrepute, SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SA journalist \u2018sacked for calling Zuma a zombie\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/04\/sa-journalist-sacked-for-calling-zuma-a-zombie\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"SA journalist \u2018sacked for calling Zuma a zombie\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A popular radio presenter in South Africa has been fired by the public broadcaster, SABC, for calling President\u00a0Jacob Zuma\u00a0a \u201czombie\u201d in a Facebook post, the privately owned News 24 site has\u00a0reported. 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