Three senior SABC journalists face internal disciplinary charges for airing their concerns in a letter about the broadcaster’s controversial editorial policies‚ reported eNCA on Thursday.

They are SAfm Current Affairs executive producer Krivani Pillay‚ Special Assignment executive producer Busisiwe Ntuli and senior investigative reporter Jacques Steenkamp.

The trio wrote a letter to SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng‚ saying that editorial decisions at the broadcaster amounted to censorship. Their newsrooms had become sources of “derision‚ despair and criticism“‚ they said.

Fear, low staff morale - SABC senior journalists request meeting with Hlaudi Motsoeneng

“As journalists having to operationalise the policies of this public institution‚ we feel aggrieved that journalistic integrity continues to be compromised. We wish to register our deep concern for our colleagues who have been suspended for expressing their right to freedom of expression by simply debating and assessing the newsworthiness of events as expected‚” said the letter.

Acting SABC CEO Jimi Matthews shocked the public on Monday when he suddenly resigned his post‚ citing a “corrosive atmosphere” at the broadcaster.

RSG executive producer Foeta Krige was suspended earlier along with senior producer for RSG Current Affairs Suna Venter and economics editor Thandeka Gqubule by the SABC for allegedly contravening an order by the public broadcaster not to cover a specific protest.