On the day that the SA Broadcasting Corp (SABC) fired its eighth journalist for standing up to COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the public broadcaster’s own incarnation of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, the broadcaster’s chairman Prof Mbulaheni Obert Maguvhe slammed the phone down on the Financial Mail. Apparently alarmed at being confronted by a journalist, Maguvhe muttered, "I’m very much busy, I’m sorry", before hanging up.It’s a fitting metaphor for the Unisa professor’s tenure as chairman of the broadcaster, in which the main impression Maguvhe leaves you with is that, at best, he’s AWOL. At worst, he’s delinquent.As chairman, Maguvhe should be the one raising the alarm because the editor-in-chief — a role which Motsoeneng has characteristically seized for himself — is in stark violation of SA’s press code.READ THIS: Editor's Note: How the SABC went rogue.In perhaps the most damning indictment of the SABC as at any time since democracy, new allegations in the constitutional court ap...
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