It needn’t have gone on this long. It must go no further
BETWEEN THE CHAINS: Rams must grow some horns
The new board needs to sweep the current senior SABC management out of office, starting with acting CE James Aguma
The long-overdue departure of Mbulaheni Maguvhe as the SABC’s last nonexecutive board member presents the nation with an opportunity to begin the process of fixing the ailing broadcaster. Parliament’s communications portfolio committee, which was last year jolted out of its dereliction of duty by Maguvhe’s board’s treasonous disdain for its duty, will this month start interviewing and short-listing candidates for the entire board of directors. Once in place, after appointment by the president following the parliamentary process, the board’s first duty will be to decisively relieve the nation of the Hlaudi Motsoeneng albatross. This high school dropout has been allowed to hold the nation hostage for too long, fattening his own wallet along the way. With political cover from the very president who must now appoint the new board (as he did the previous one), Motsoeneng reduced the SABC to a laughing stock ... except the plunder of so essential and strategic a public service is no laugh...
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