SABC journalist Lukhanyo Calata has told Parliament’s SABC inquiry that Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s reported relationship with President Jacob Zuma is “an open secret” at the broadcaster. Calata, who works as a Parliamentary reporter for the SABC, testified before the ad hoc committee on Monday along with SABC 8 colleagues Thandeka Gqubule,[…]
The SABC has refused to hand over ten of 15 requested documents to Parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the fitness of its board, MPs heard on Wednesday. Ad hoc committee chairperson Vincent Smith informed the committee on its first day of work that the broadcaster had only handed over five[…]
President Jacob Zuma has accepted the resignation of two more SABC board members. “President Jacob Zuma has received and accepted the resignations of Ms Vuyo Mhlakaza and Dr Aaron Tshidzumba as members of the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with immediate effect,” the Presidency said in a[…]
Krish Naidoo stunned not only members of Parliament, but also his SABC colleagues as he turned on the board he served on for three years, branding it amateurish and dysfunctional and calling for its dissolution on Wednesday. Naidoo also resigned during the heated meeting in Parliament, which was held to[…]
The Congress of the People (Cope) has laid a complaint with police against the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng, claiming he irregularly sold SABC archives to entertainment and internet company MultiChoice, spokesperson Dennis Bloem said on Saturday. The decision comes after the volatile presentation by the SABC to Parliament’s committee on communications,[…]
Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng remains a trustworthy employee capable of holding any position of authority, the Ses’khona Peoples Rights Movement said on Tuesday. It was convinced that the SABC board and Motsoeneng were victims of “political realignment” in the ANC and the country, the movement’s leader Andile Lili told[…]
The chickens are coming home to roost. What you sow, you will harvest. Pile up the clichés: this is what is happening to the governing ANC right now. The ANC in Parliament wants to disband the SABC Board tomorrow because it has embarrassed the party and the broadcaster. But these[…]
The Right2Know campaign on Wednesday called on SABC advertiser SABMiller to stop giving the broadcaster’s former COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, power. “Stop making Hlaudi drunk on power. The snake won’t stop, we are sick of his shit,” R2K’s Micah Reddy said after about 70 protesters marched through the streets of Johannesburg[…]
Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng did not qualify for the new job he was given at the broadcaster, Cope said on Wednesday. The DA has also questioned the “speed and secrecy” of Motsoeneng’s appointment as group executive of corporate affairs, which the SABC announced on Tuesday. Cope spokesperson Dennis Bloem[…]
Lobby group Right2Know has called for advertisers to boycott the public broadcaster until its “crisis” has been dealt with. The crisis at the SABC was unprecedented, R2K said in a statement on Monday. “The SABC is expected to post a loss of R500 million this year. Rampant financial mismanagement is[…]
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