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| The IFP protest today in Johannesburg |
Dealing with liberal media bias / propaganda seems to be a common theme among the center-right around the globe, as both Ghanaian and South African center-rightists have protested the issue in recent months. From News 24, about the center-right Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party: "A group of IFP supporters marched through the Johannesburg CBD [Central Business District] to the SABC [South African Broadcasting Corporation] studios in Auckland Park, Johannesburg on Friday to demand equal coverage for all political parties. Led by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the group was to hand over a memorandum of understanding to the public broadcaster. 'We demand equal coverage for all political parties', read their posters. Others said, 'We also pay our TV licences'. Buthelezi was expected to address the hundreds of protesters when they arrived at the SABC's offices in Auckland Park."
More: "IFP MP Mkhuleko Hlengwa said he had had enough of the public broadcaster operating as an 'ANC and government station instead of a public broadcaster'. 'A multi-democracy shouldn't work like this....We want an end to this political conviction,' he said. An IFP supporter, who identified herself as Ndumiso, said: 'We call the media when we have events but they are never there, but when there is trouble [with the ANC], they are the first to come running.'"
