Phat Joe has been fired...

Like I predicted last month, Phat Joe has been fired.

Just last month I called the Kaya studios asking them about these rumours that this dude was going to be fired, and they flat out denied it...even calling me almost blowing this thing out of proportion. Then it turns out its true... WTF?

This dude who was born Majota Mandlakayise Isaac KAMBULE aka "Phat Joe" made remarks last month about 800m gold medalist Caster Semenya saying:

"Does this mean that at this point she has never had a period? To some extent, she should have known that something is not 100 percent right, she was still waiting for her period perhaps? Did she cheat when she left those women (behind) in Germany? Why is it possible that she could not have known that she is not 100 percent female?"

Gabiville says: Good Ridden because he should know that its not his place to make such a nasty comment and think he's going to get away with it. And Kudoz to KayaFM for finally getting rid of this dude.

READ what the statement said:

Kaya FM 95.9 officially announced today the dismissal of its breakfast show host Majota “Phatjoe” Kambule with immediate effect following a two week suspension and inquiry into comments the presenter made regarding Caster Semenya on the station’s breakfast show – “The Phatjoe Morning Show” on Friday 11 September 2009.

The radio station received an overwhelming number of calls, direct e-mails, webmaster e-mails, SMS’s, BCCSA complaints and Facebook messages on The Phatjoe Morning Show page over the last two weeks from listeners and the general public expressing anger and disapproval on how the Caster Semenya issue, deemed a highly sensitive matter, was handled “on air” by the presenter.

The general sentiment was that whist freedom of speech is essential, the presenter was seen, as one reader’s letter put it in The Times newspaper (on the 15^th September 2009), both “immature and insensitive” in dealing with the issue. Public commentary also reached various newspapers and websites through editorial pages and letters from readers and bloggers alike. Last week, a public apology that was unsanctioned by the station and made independently by Mr Kambule was on his website Phatjoeradio.com as well as in an article in the Saturday Star.

The internal investigation however involved a deliberation and assessment of all comments received by Kaya FM versus what Phatjoe said in his broadcast. In view of the numerous complaints received by the station it was therefore part of the station’s finding that Mr Kambule had created the potential for a fair amount of risk with regard to the relationships that the station has with its listeners, advertisers and stakeholders groups. The decision to terminate does not merely concern conduct but therefore also concerns an operational management decision

Phatjoe began his residence at Kaya FM and the Phatjoe Morning Show in March 2008 with the launch of the much talked about “Two Strangers and a Wedding” campaign. The concept behind the breakfast show was to create a fresh, vibrant and well packaged mix of “infotainment” that would include music, celebrity interviews and comedy supported by regular updates of news, business, traffic and sport.

THE REPLACEMENT: Reggie Philander will be caretaker to the breakfast show in the short-term whilst the station makes a decision on the next steps with regards to a presenter for the slot.- Kaya FM