A video clip of a politician’s “most embarrassing moment” has been viewed more than 70 000 times around the world.
The Times reported yesterday on the toppling of the chairman of parliament’s portfolio committee on finance, Nhlanhla Nene, during an interview on SABC2’s View from the House, broadcast live on Tuesday morning.
International broadcasters such as the UK’s BBC and Sky News, and The Daily Telegraph newspaper, US network CNN and a host of bloggers have posted the video on their websites, giving the clip titles such as “SABC takes the chair out of finance chairman”.
Nene’s fall has been talked about on radio shows, and local and international viewers have watched his tumble on e-mail, and social networking sites Facebook and YouTube. There are also at least 500 Google listings of the gaffe.
The clip shows Nene chatting to presenter Hayde Fitzpatrick about Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s mini-budget. Nene’s chair cracked, then collapsed — and he tumbled to the floor.
On Talk Radio 702 yesterday morning, Nene said he didn’t “understand why people thought the clip was funny as it was the most embarrassing moment of my life”.
Reports that an SABC employee who leaked the clip had been found and punished proved to be untrue.
A spokesman for the broadcaster, Kaizer Kganyago, said: “The matter is still being investigated. The allegations that someone internally has been caught for being responsible for leaking the video are not true.”
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