Boycott the SABC and don't pay TV license

There is only one way for us to teach the SABC a lesson.

We should all refuse to pay our TV licences for 2017.

And being fellow South Africans, all advertisers should withdraw their advertisements with immediate effect.

I suspect the SABC’s current arrogant bosses would make a stand and threaten us all with legal action and prison.

But this wouldn’t last for long.

In the end, money makes a very persuasive argument against anyone.

Did you watch last week’s committee hearings into the SABC?

I will be honest and tell you that I couldn’t believe my ears.

Some of the more crazy allegations include Hlaudi Motsoeneng insisting that journalists rise onto their feet when he enters, that national spies were sent into the SABC to intimidate staff, and that the Guptas got their hands on our licence fees as well as our taxes.

It truly is the kind of stuff that crime dramas are made of.

One ANC MP actually asked how it was possible for an entire board of educated people to fear one man, who doesn’t even have a matric certificate.

The answer has to do with that man having direct access to his own boss, who himself is without a matric certificate.

These are men who have obviously outlawed education and vilified intellectual discourse.

Like Jacob Zuma, Hlaudi is a dictator who plunders and rules by fear.

And the only way to make them see reason is to remove the incentive – the money.

I will start the ball rolling by not paying my TV licence next year.

It’s a tiny amount, but it is going to make me feel a whole lot better knowing that I am not helping to pay Hlaudi’s salary.