ABSTRACT
The project of conquest and colonisation is a historical fact that underpins the current international order and of the power relations that mark societal relations to this day. Due to the state of affairs that extends to the asymmetrical power relations in the production of knowledge, there is a call for de-hegemonisation and democratisation of knowledge. In this chapter I endeavor to introduce the decolonial epistemological moorings that seek to unmask how knowledge may be used to justify colonialism. By use of a case study of the SABC (the South African Broadcasting Corporation) I intend to demonstrate how public service broadcasting has always been an improbable social formation in the global south. It is an institution full of conflicts and paradoxes, particularly concerning institutional ‘independence’, and therefore permanently unbalanced because of its inclination to broadcast from the vantage point of the West yet being geographically located on the epistemic sites on the darker side of modernity.
