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SABC has revealed that  Robert Marawa will be re-joining the public broadcaster from 1 August.

The star will be presenting a new sports show which will be broadcast simultaneously on Metro FM (18:00 to 19:00) and Radio 2000 (18:00 to 20:00) Monday to Friday.

“The SABC looks forward to having Mr Marawa back on board once again, to deliver another dose of award-winning sports programming, as we grow our audiences and fulfill our mandate as a public service broadcaster.”SABC Spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said

Speaking about his return, Rober said: “I see this as a continuation of a journey with the SABC and one that shows commitment from the leadership of the Public Broadcaster in fulfilling its public service mandate. This high level of support is important to me in delivering the kind of quality show that the listener deserves and with the historic simulcast option, we hope rush-hour traffic frustrations will be a thing of the past.”

Robert Marawa has revealed  the need for the SABC board to interfere with great on air talent was the reason for his departure from Metro FM in 2017.

In July of last year, the public broadcaster shocked their listeners as they announced they had parted ways with the veteran broadcaster after ongoing behind-the-scenes in-fighting.

Three weeks prior to his departure, Madluphuthurefused to return to his sports show in solidarity of the “unfair suspension” of his producer, Beverly Maphangwa, who had been punished after playing clips that included commentary from pay-tv SuperSport.

Speaking to Azania on Real Talk on 3, Robert said the interference involved in his show is similar to the treatment received by Bonang, who resigned from her show after not being consulted about Lerato Kganyago joining as co-host for her show, The Front Row.

“Is this about how individuals excite themselves or how they treat the talent?” he told Azania about his departure, “If she is great from 9-12 and the listeners are there, why do you wanna come and interfere with that? Why do you always wanna interfere with successful people that are bringing the listeners or potentially bringing the sponsors? There needs to be a minimizing of that.”