South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chairman Mbulaheni Maguvhe has approached the High Court in Cape Town to interdict Parliament from proceeding with an inquiry into the crisis at the public broadcaster. Maguvhe is the lone board member remaining. Maguvhe is understood to be concerned that some members of the ad hoc committee set up to investigate the SABC and its dysfunctional board — such as DA MP Phumzile van Damme and EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi — are biased against him because they have made up their minds already that the SABC board must be dissolved. The committee is scheduled to begin its work on Tuesday, but it will likely be postponed pending the court application. The inquiry is meant to run for two weeks and its report is due in February 2017. DA federal executive chairman James Selfe said the party had briefed its lawyers and it would be opposing Maguvhe’s application. The matter is likely to be heard on Friday. “We will be filing our papers tomorrow [Tuesday] … ...
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