Andrew Sesinyi

Quotes

• “The Olympics proved to be a huge public relations exercise. Olympics don’t sell as football. It meant taking austerity measures.”
• “You could pay staff for a month and go for three months without pay. I cut the entitlements of the SG. The position attracted huge benefits. I postponed plans to purchase a new Mercedes for the SG, removed the travelling from first class to business class and moved out of a mansion to an apartment whose rental was one fifth of what the mansion cost.”
• “You needed a different person to implement the scheme.”
• “The best broadcaster still alive is my neighbour Batho Molema. He has absolutely no idea how I hold him in high esteem. Molema is a successful man in his own right. He was a pioneer.”
• “We have for example the SABC which has less stigma than ourselves but it is government controlled. We are at a stage where we should also know that the public is fairly sophisticated and so unless we project a more transparent image of both radio and television, news that come out of these media will always be regarded as propaganda.”
• “When I ran the Round Table show there was no interference on my show. As the former director I never experienced any interference from anyone although I was called a puppet. Everyone called me the chief censor of news. I didn’t blame them because I was 100 percent owned by the government,”

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