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From: dlush@ingrid.misa.org.na (David Lush - MISA)
Subject: IFEX auto - South Africa
Date: Tue Feb  6 03:20:11 1996

Report from South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) of Monday Feb 5:

SOUTH AFRICA: TELEVISION/SABC/5/2/96  Sabanews 1

PRETORIA -- President NELSON MANDELA of SOUTH AFRICA has
relaunched his country's state television service, with a
promise of autonomy and independence.

He says his administration does not want to compromise the
public broadcaster's independence and autonomy, but wants to
acknowledge and reassert its independence.

Without such independence, the 78-year-old MANDELA says,
democracy cannot be survive.

The relaunch of SOUTH AFRICA's television service is designed to
give the country's 11 languages a representative share of the
airtime./Sabanews/apc/bs/fc


David Lush
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)
Private Bag 13386
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel. +264 61 232975, Fax. 248016
e-mail: dlush@ingrid.misa.org.na