WATCH: SABC staff clash with management over job cuts

WATCH: SABC staff clash with management over job cuts

Staff in the SABC newsroom have confronted the public broadcaster's management over planned retrenchments.

A picture taken on October 20, 2010 shows the SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation) headquarters in Johannesburg. South Africa's crisis-hit public broadcaster posted a modest profit in the first six months of the 2010 financial year after a financ
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In a heated meeting that was broadcast live on yesterday - the employees said they wouldn't allow the job cuts and called for management to resign.

Around 400 full-time workers could lose their jobs.

On Tuesday, the SABC announced it recorded a net loss of R511 million in the past financial year.

According to reports the SABC has halted the retrenchment process. 

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