DA tries to force SABC to reveal executives’ ‘inflated’ salaries
The DA has submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to prove salaries are not greatly reduced, as the SABC maintains
On Friday, the DA said it had submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to get access to documents revealing exactly how much top management at the SABC earns. “We have, today, submitted a PAIA application to the SABC requesting the full salary packages of the public broadcaster’s group CEO‚ COO and CFO‚” the DA’s Phumzile van Damme said in a statement. “The PAIA aims to promote transparency‚ accountability and effective governance of all public bodies, like the SABC. The grounds for refusal of information in the act do not apply to the SABC in this instance. We trust that the public broadcaster’s management will reveal the requested information in the spirit of promotion of transparency‚ accountability and effective governance at the SABC‚ as they often proclaim to be adherents of‚” she said. Van Damme said the party has also written to communication minister Nomvula Mokonyane about the disclosure of the salaries as well as how their appointments were ma...
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