The Patriotic Alliance (PA) has withdrawn their initial charges against webcasters, The Open Chats podcast and replaced them with new charges that have removed all references to the SABC.
This follows an apology from party leader Gayton McKenzie, who had falsely accused the public broadcaster of being involved with the independent podcast. The podcast’s presenters made derogatory remarks about the coloured community in South Africa, which McKenzie mistakenly believed had been aired on SABC platforms.
He has since retracted his claims and apologised after consultations with the broadcaster.
PA lawyer Eugine Botha says, “Charges were never laid against SABC 2, but we did reference SABC 2 as one of the platforms on which this podcast had aired. That’s erroneous – so we have asked councilor Liam Jacobs to go back to the police station where he laid the charges, to withdraw those charges and re-issue the charges afresh without reference to the SABC 2, in order to correct this incorrect and misleading context.”
[WATCH] Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie has apologised to the SABC after accusing the corporation of being involved in the Open Chats Podcast which included derogatory comments about the coloured community. pic.twitter.com/ra9i9PcL1b
— SABC News (@SABCNews) August 7, 2025
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