COPE wants Jimi Matthews to answer questions about the SABC
The Congress of the People (COPE) wants the SABC’s former acting CEO, Jimi Matthews, to account to Parliament on his role in "manipulating and corrupting the SABC newsroom". The party’s Dennis Bloem also said the ad hoc committee investigating the crisis at the public broadcaster‚ which concluded its sessions for the year on Thursday‚ should call former board chairs Ben Ngubane and Ellen Tshabalala. Committee chairperson Vincent Smith said last week that Ngubane and Tshabalala would top the list of witnesses when it resumed its inquiry in January. Bloem said of Matthews that his "name has been constantly mentioned by witnesses‚ especially by the so-called SABC 8" — the name given to the eight journalists who were axed then reinstated by the SABC after their opposition to a protest coverage blackout. "Very serious allegations were made against Matthews regarding how he was part of the unethical corrupt behaviour‚ including instructing journalists to do wrong things and also threatene...
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