Defiant one-member board of SABC faces inquiry by MPs
The inquiry into the crisis at the SABC will go ahead unless chairman Mbulaheni Mbulaheni resigns
Parliament is forging ahead with its plan to hold an inquiry into the crisis at the SABC including investigating the board’s ability to discharge its fiduciary duties, despite it now only having one nonexecutive director. Parliament’s ad-hoc committee tasked with holding the inquiry met for the first time on Tuesday to finalise the programme and witness list. Two more board members, Vuyo Mhlakaza and Aaron Tshidzumba, have resigned, leaving the board with only its chairman, Mbulaheni Maguvhe. Committee chairman Vincent Smith said the inquiry would continue as planned unless Maguvhe resigned, in which case their mandate to determine their fitness would end. Maguvhe did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. He was defiant in October, saying he would not resign. "They realised that it will be better to resign than face a litany of issues that Parliament will be bringing … for the chairman [Maguvhe] it’s only a matter of time," Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird sai...
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