Fired cast gs to high court to end new Generations

With plunging ratings and having lost millions of viewers more drama is waiting behind the scenes for SABC1's beleaguered restarted soap with the fired principal cast now taking their cast to the high court with help from a former SABC CEO and demanding that the SABC stop broadcasting Generations: The Legacy at the latest by 10 January 2015. by Thinus Ferreira

While viewers have soured in their millions and turned on the soap, which restarted at the beginning of last week after a break of two months, the Generations Actors Guild is now going to challenge their dismissal by producer Mfundi Vundla in the high court.

In the ever-widening scandal they're helped in their battle against the SABC and Mfundi Vundla by none other than the former SABC CEO, advocate Dali Mpofu. They've now withdrawn their case from the CCMA and are going to the high court instead.

The SABC's now acting CEO Hlaudi Motsoeneng promised the fired Generations cast three year contracts in June 2013 which more than a year later didn't materialise. They also never got payment, known as residuals - and specified in their existing contracts - for the multiple rebroadcasts in South Africa and resales of the soap internationally. They eventually embarked on a stayaway and were promptly fired.

The scandal dominated TV and entertainment headlines since mid-August when the cast was fired, with ugly mudslinging between Vundla and the SABC and the fired cast - something which has not been lost on viewers. The reset soap - sans the familiar faces - had a debut last Monday of 7.5 million viewers 15 and older - the demographic most coveted by advertisers, but plunged to a shocking 4.1 million viewers by this past Friday.

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