SABC group executive for corporate affairs Hlaudi Motsoeneng has slammed too much education‚ vilified researchers and suggested foreigners shouldn’t spend too long in SA. Speaking at an ANC Youth League gathering in Durban on Thursday night‚ he said: "Research takes long. It takes three years to research and two years to implement it … too much education is dangerous. It’s like overdosing on your medicine." Motsoeneng said professors always tried to influence him and one even wanted to be his mentor. "I said (to him) you always quote people and books saying ‘so and so said this. When are you going to be quoted yourself?’ He could not answer many of my questions and in the end I knew I should be his mentor‚" he said. Motsoeneng told people attending the youth league’s lecture on economic freedom why he supported Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the next president of SA and why he would not bow out like Eskom CE Brian Molefe.
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