ANTON HARBER: ANC wrings benefits from absence of SABC board
Sometimes it’s the smaller things that tell you most. Sometimes you understand what is happening in this country not by the big national picture, but in the commonplace detail of everyday life. Good governance usually starts with the routine and mundane.
On Monday the SABC, an important state-owned enterprise, will not have had a board of directors for all of three months. This means that, despite all the ANC and presidential commitments to clean up state-owned entity (SOE) governance, they have allowed there to be no financial oversight and no crucial strategic decisions at a troubled SOE for an extended period...
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