Schabir Shaik's brother appointed to board of eTV’s listed holding company, eMedia
Schabir's younger brother Yunis Shaik has been appointed to the board of eTV’s JSE-listed holding company eMedia, the media group said in a Sens statement on Wednesday. The appointment is controversial because Shaik’s interference at eTV was cited as one of the reasons for the acrimonious split between Marcel Golding, who was eTV’s CEO until 2014, and his long-standing business partner, Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) CEO, John Copelyn. Amabhungane reported in 2014 that e-mails between Shaik and eTV’s former chief operating officer Bronwyn Keene-Young "made explicit" he tried "to get better coverage for government as part of a lobbying campaign on behalf of HCI". According to Amabhungane, Shaik attempted to secure the government’s support for eTV’s set-top box (STB) programme by promising favourable coverage.
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