Central SA
Police called on community station presenters─── LUCKY NKUYANE 11:23 Sat, 06 Apr 2019
The police were called to stabilise the situation at the troubled Bloemfontein community station, Motheo FM.
This after certain presenters defied a court order.
Park Road police spokesperson, Thabo Covane, confirmed to OFM News that police were called in after an impasse between the management of the station and the irate presenters affected by changes at the station.
He explained two presenters have a court order instructing them not disrupt the station’s operations.
OFM News previously reported that the morning drive show host, Fana Mini, and his producer, Aizet Moroeng, were suspended after they allegedly allowed listeners to express their views with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the reshuffling of presenters.
Efforts to get a comment from the station manager has since been unsuccessful.
Mini refused to sign two letters notifying him of his suspension saying the letters did not include reasons for his suspension. He accused the current station manager of causing 'mayhem' at the station.
Mini is one of a few presenters, who earlier in January, led a protest against the former station manager, Manko Buffle, who has since resigned earlier in 2019. He and others were protesting against the unfavourable working conditions, low pay and ill-treatment from the management.
