Parliament partly to blame for the mess at the SABC, says former board member Bongani Khumalo
Parliament should take more responsibility for the mess at the SABC, a former board member said on Tuesday. Bongani Khumalo, who resigned from the board in 2015 after several run-ins with Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, told the Parliamentary inquiry into the crisis at the public broadcaster that the issues at the corporation were not necessarily about its structure, but pertained to "attitudes and behaviour". "I would like to call upon the relevant structures of Parliament to take responsibility for what has happened at the [SABC]," said Khumalo. He suggested MPs should be more stringent when appointing board members, and offer them training — especially in terms of corporate governance principles. The crisis at the SABC was symptomatic of corporate governance issues that most state-owned entities continued to grapple with, Khumalo said. He told the inquiry that he had resigned from the board in early 2015 after having publicly challenged its controversial decision to back ...
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