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SABC claims credit for AKA's career

Written by TVSA Team from the blog News on 25 Apr 2016
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SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng threw shade at rapper AKA on Morning Live this morning when viewers revealed that they were much more interested in AKA than what the SABC had to say.

As we reported here, Hlaudi and SABC CFO James Aguma were interviewed by Leanne Manas about the four new channels that the SABC plans to introduce. Leanne encouraged viewers to interact with the interview by giving their views or asking questions but no-one asked a thing because they were much more interested in talking about AKA and his appearance on Morning Live.

Leanne dealt with the awks situation by saying: "It seems people are too excited that AKA's coming to visit us. I don't know guys, I don't know if you can compare to AKA at this point. It looks like that's all they want to talk about."

She then managed the situation by bringing the conversation back to the SABCs plans for local content, saying: "That's local content."

To which Hlaudi replied: "They know the singer because of the SABC. Without SABC there is no AKA so I think it is important to highlight that."

Shadey!

And highly debatable. Yes, the SABC owns national radio stations which have given AKA airplay BUT there is no doubt that he would still be AKA without the SABC. He has YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, DStv and other radio stations (on-air and online, with international reach) so he definitely is AKA without the SABC.

It raises an interesting question: how much of an impact has the SABC had on AKA's career? Would he be as successful without them? Sound off below.
 

Actors in this post: AKA



6 Comments

Ingenuity
25 Apr 2016 15:59

I can only hope that he was being flippant, surely he can't believe that.

deziclesthagawd
25 Apr 2016 17:57

LOL Uncle Hlaudi lives to put his foot in it! Knowing him he was probably being serious. I'm embarrassed

qaqamba
26 Apr 2016 10:19

yageza laa AKA umjongile,, lol..

max85
26 Apr 2016 11:55

I think he was just joking the illeterate one .he just likes to shoot his mouth without thinking lol.SABC needs a competent person to run these channels because local content is really lacking on these channels

makisto
03 May 2016 18:50

Such is expected from a man with no matric though

lilyman
11 May 2016 10:40

SABC  is boring ...No doubts its like those who do not have Dstvs are being punished ..... yoooo come SABC ya can do better than that ......


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