Prospective SABC board member, Nomvuyiso Batyi, has been accused of "corruption" for not reporting former communications minister Faith Muthambi to the police for trying to "unduly influence" her. The accusation was leveled against Batyi during interviews for the SABC board in Parliament on Thursday. "I put it to you that you believe in corruption. Unless you prove to me‚ you give me the antithesis‚ I will remain in that kind of belief‚" said Congress of the People MP Willie Madisha, referring to a Sunday Times report which alleged that Muthambi "attempted to unduly influence" Batyi by offering her the position of chairperson of Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) "in return for you giving a TV broadcasting licence to a Gupta-owned broadcasting company". "Is this correct? It was put that you threatened the minister when that whole thing [the chairperson’s appointment] was not implemented. Why didn’t you go to the police to report that whole thing? For you not having d...
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