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After a month plagued with delays, The Battle for Secrecy Brilliant Event Part One is set to go live today in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

SABC News Editor-in-Chief Phathiswa Magopeni has found fault in the SABC for not allowing her to launch an investigation into the airing of the episode.

SABC head of news Phathiswa Magopeni has attempted to have her disciplinary hearing collapsed.

Nazeer Cassim SC says the question is simple: did Phathiswa Magopeni take sufficient measures to ensure such an issue would not arise?

It is day two of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) editor-in-chiefs disciplinary hearing. She is being held responsible for an episode of Special Assignment being flighted despite a court interdict.

Nazeer Cassim SC says the question is simple: did Phathiswa Magopeni take sufficient measures to ensure such an issue would not arise?

The SABC was willing to comply with a court order that it should not air an interdicted programme, a disciplinary hearing has heard.

Nazeer Cassim SC says the question is simple: did Phathiswa Magopeni take sufficient measures to ensure such an issue would not arise?

SABC Editor-in-Chief Phathiswa Magopeni is accused of failing to discharge her duties by preventing the interdicted episode from airing.

SABC Editor-in-Chief Phathiswa Magopeni is accused of failing to discharge her duties as group executive of news, failing to stop the interdicted programme from airing and bringing the name of the SABC into disrepute.