INTERIM FINDINGS
SABC security contract was irregularly issued, says SIU report
A preliminary Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe has found that a R185m SABC security tender was irregularly awarded by its interim board and should be set aside. The interim board was appointed in 2017 to resolve challenges at the public broadcaster but has now found itself in crisis following the resignations of four of its board members earlier in December. These interim findings will cast a shadow over the Ramaphosa administration’s drive to clean up the SABC, which has reported losses exceeding R1.5bn over the past two financial years. Tebogo Malatji, the lawyer representing former interim board members Khanyisile Kweyama, Krish Naidoo, John Matisonn and Mathatha Tsedu last week denied there was any link between their resignations and the security tender. The resignations of the four come after reports that new communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams was "at war" with the board over the retrenchments of 981 permanent staff and 1,200 freelancers, and allegations that...
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