adminTHE trouble in the Generations camp continues. Last week Daily Sun ran a story about the ongoing fight between the stars and the SABC over royalties. The soapie cast said they will not rest until the public broadcaster and MMSV Productions give them what they believe they should get.
As the strike, which started last week, continues, the cast members expressed their anger yesterday in a statement that explained that the public broadcaster has ignored their grievances.
“We are in exactly the same position we were in last October when we first went on strike.
Nothing has been resolved,” said a cast member.
“After the first strike we came back to work in good faith, with the understanding that all the issues that we’d brought up would be addressed by the broadcaster months ago in March, the date they agreed on. Since then, they have missed their own deadline and pushed the date out, with no discernible resolution to the grievances in sight.”
The cast’s demands include three-year contracts and payment of royalties for the episodes being repeated on the channel. The cast’s legal representative Bulelani Mzamo said: “There are a number of issues that caused this strike and the cast understood that some would require long-term responses, while others could be resolved within the time-lines the public broadcaster had set.”
Mzamo said that the broadcaster and the production company have not kept their word to resolve their grievances.
16 actors, including Patrick Shai, Zenande Mfenyana, Zikhona Sodlaka, Seputla Sebogodi, Nambitha Mpumlwana and Sophie Ndaba are part of the strike. – Daily Sun.
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