SABC’s Motsoeneng not responsible for costs of dismissals, his lawyer says
The former chief operating officer did not make the decision to fire eight journalists, according to his lawyer; their lawyer begs to differ
The SABC’s former chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, is not responsible for the costs incurred during the dismissal of eight journalists last year. This is according to his legal representative Advocate Thabani Masuku‚ who argued that Motsoeneng was not the decision-maker, and that the directive to dismiss the journalists was taken by former acting group CEO Jimi Matthews‚ who ordered former acting group executive for news and current affairs‚ Simon Tebele‚ to fire the eight employees. "The court had not identified Mr Motsoeneng as the decision-maker responsible for terminating the employment contracts of the applicants. [The] SABC itself had not identified Mr Motsoeneng as the decision-maker [and] the applicants themselves did not identify Mr Motsoeneng as the decision-maker‚" argued Masuku. He further argued that if union Solidarity believed that Motsoeneng was responsible‚ they would have joined him with the main applications. "The sole reason and purpose for joining Mr ...
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