COST ORDER
Unions target Motsoeneng first to reclaim SABC legal fees
Former head of news Simon Tebele is also in their sights as they go after the millions in legal fees a court has ruled must be repaid to them
Trade union Solidarity expects disgraced former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng to pay the R1m in legal fees that the union is owed after it won a cost order last week. If he was unable to pay the total amount, the union would attempt to retrieve the amount from former SABC head of news Simon Tebele and the public broadcaster itself, the head of Solidarity’s Centre for Fair Labour Practices, Anton van der Bijl, said on Friday. Motsoeneng, the SABC and Tebele were hit with the cost order on Friday, when Judge David Gush ordered that they were jointly and severally liable for the legal costs of both Solidarity and the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) in the court battle that forced the SABC to reappoint seven dismissed journalists. The unions could, however, decide from whom they wanted to start claiming and how much they should pay, Van der Bijl said. Solidarity believed that Motsoeneng made the decision to fire the journalists and that h...
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