Committee vows to continue SABC inquiry, despite final resignation
Parliament’s ad hoc committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the SABC will not pack up and stop work simply because all SABC board members have resigned, committee chairman Vincent Smith said on Tuesday. "We have a programme and that programme will continue," Smith insisted in an interview. His comments followed the resignation on Monday of SABC chairman Prof Mbulaheni Maguvhe, the last of the board members to resign. Smith said the National Assembly’s mandate to the committee went beyond the question of the suitability of board members and included matters of financial management, adherence to policies and procedures and the implementation of the recommendations of former public protector Thuli Madonsela among other things. At a very minimum he said the hearings with former board members, staff and stakeholders, which have gripped the nation with their revelations of abuse of power and lack of proper corporate governance, had highlighted the need for clarity on which act of P...
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