Verbal attack on Jackson Mthembu comes back to haunt Hlaudi Motsoeneng
Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s verbal attack on Jackson Mthembu at a business briefing held by a Gupta-owned newspaper has come back to haunt the SABC executive. Motsoeneng reportedly claimed the ANC chief whip had ulterior motives and "interests" in the public broadcaster. Now Mthembu says he is suing Motsoeneng for R1m for "malicious and defamatory" comments. Speaking at The New Age business briefing in October, Motsoeneng reportedly said: "Jackson Mthembu should know that I met him at a certain hotel where maybe it is capture, but no one can capture me and he knows that. That meeting was co-ordinated by someone and we met." Mthembu has been critical of the goings-on at the SABC and Motsoeneng’s leadership when he was chief operating officer. Chairman Mbulaheni Maguvhe is the only SABC nonexecutive board member remaining after an exodus. A parliamentary ad hoc committee has been set up to institute an inquiry into the public broadcaster. The inquiry is set to begin on November 29.
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