Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) Director William Bird says SABC was known as part of the state and propaganda arm of the Nationalist Party government. Bird says, “Even before then if you go back television was resisted by then Nationalist Party because they saw it as this thing that will bring in evil, vesuvius values, it was going to assist in Satanism been spread throughout the land and people getting all sorts of wild and liberation ideas and communist coming, and taking over.”