Democratic Alliance Leader Slams SABC for Banning Election Ad, Vows Legal Challenge

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen has criticised the SABC for banning its television election advertisement, saying the party’s lawyers have been instructed to challenge this. The public broadcaster has refused to air the DA’s controversial advert, which depicts a burning South African flag, in its current form. It believes the advert encourages damage to treasured national symbols. Steenhuisen says this blatant act of censorship is an unprecedented assault on democracy: