ACCOUNTABILITY
Love and hope may have left SABC, but Faith was not alone
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi may be the face of the rot at the SABC but she is certainly not the source of it, writes Xolisa Phillip
When the dust settles from the inquiry into the tragic drama playing out at the SABC, Communications Minister Faith Muthambi should not be the only person to take the fall. True, Muthambi has become synonymous with the shambles at the SABC by aiding and abetting Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s sustained assault on the public broadcaster’s independence. She has flouted every corporate governance prescript in her crusade to facilitate Motsoeneng’s victimisation of staff and journalists who have declined to toe the line. But she has not been alone in creating the conditions that gave rise to Motsoeneng and fed his insatiable hubris. In November 2015, the Cabinet gave the green light for the Broadcasting Amendment Bill to go to Parliament. The bill proposes sweeping changes in how the SABC’s executive committee is constituted and also envisages excluding Parliament in the appointment of the broadcaster’s nonexecutive board members. In the latter case, the communications minister — in this instance,...
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