In a note that Lusa had access to, Record TV África claims that it does not have any journalists of foreign nationality on its staff.
He also stresses that Fernando Henrique Teixeira, who was responsible for the executive direction of the company, will be replaced in his duties, after 10 years in Angola, by Simeão Mundula, a journalist who worked for the National Radio of Angola and Public Television of Angola (TPA), and who since 2018 was editor-in-chief and host of the JR Africa program shown by Record TV Africa and Record News International.
The Government announced the suspension of the activity of the Record network, as well as the Vida TV and Zap Viva channels, on April 19, after detecting "legal non-conformities", according to a statement released at the time by the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies Social ("MINTTICS").
The statement stated that the company Rede Record de Televisão (Angola), Limitada, which is responsible for TV Record Africa, had as executive director a non-national citizen and indicated that the foreign staff of Record Angola, who exercise journalistic activity in the country, they are not accredited or accredited by the Aníbal de Melo Press Center.
These "legal non-conformities" dictated the suspension, as of 00:00 on April 21, of the television activity of Rede Record de Televisão Angola Limitada / Record TV África and foreign journalists linked to it.
Record, which claims to be registered, since 2011, in the National Directorate of Information and Institutional Communication (DNICI) of MINTTICS as a company creating audiovisual products, being made available in Angola by the DSTV platform, also ensures that "all of its programs are produced through the use - unique and exclusive - of Angolan professionals ".
"Record Tv África is committed to meeting the expectations placed on it, which is why it expects the National Directorate for Institutional Information and Communication at MINTTICS to lift the suspension of its activity and reestablish its channel, with a view to continuing to produce information. , entertaining and bringing emotions to viewers, safeguarding, also, their activity and especially their jobs ", adds the statement.
Record and Zap said they were taken by surprise by the authorities' decision, while Vida TV did not comment on the matter.
