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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said on Monday its group chief executive, Dali Mpofu, was reconsidering his options after the M&G Online published a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster.

Mpofu himself told the South African Press Association (Sapa) he was consulting lawyers after losing a court battle over the report.

"I am still discussing it with my lawyers," Mpofu told Sapa.

The commission -- chaired by former SABC head Zwelakhe Sisulu and advocate Gilbert Marcus, who assisted him -- was set up to probe complaints about a ruling, allegedly by the head of news, Snuki Zikalala, that certain commentators and analysts not be used because they were critical of President Thabo Mbeki.

Sisulu and Marcus said the report was "manifestly in the public interest and should be made available to the entire public".

However, the broadcaster decided not to publish the full report. Interviewed on the SABC on Sunday morning, Mpofu said: "The quality of the evidence that was contained therein was not of such a nature that we can publish the allegations made not under oath, not under cross-examination, by anonymous sources and so on against individuals." ....