Remaining SABC board members should know their fate by end of October
Portfolio committee on communications will next week begin the inquiry
The remaining four board members of the SABC are likely to know their fate before the end of October. Parliament announced on Thursday that the portfolio committee on communications would next Wednesday begin the inquiry into the fitness of the SABC board to hold office, in terms of the Broadcasting Act. The act provides for a procedure allowing the National Assembly to recommend that the SABC board be dissolved. However, it can make such a recommendation only after an inquiry and on specific grounds, including the inability of the board to discharge its fiduciary duties, non-adherence to the Broadcasting Charter and if they are unable to carry out their duties as contemplated in the act. If such a recommendation is made, the president as the appointing authority, would have to dissolve the board. The act also provides for an interim board to be appointed for a period not exceeding six months. Earlier in October members of the portfolio committee agreed unanimously that the board ne...
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