EDITORIAL: Hlaudi’s power — the mask has slipped
Finally, we have a lucid answer, emerging from the SABC carnage described by the ‘SABC Eight’
A few years back, one SABC executive described how Hlaudi Motsoeneng, a man cut from the Idi Amin cloth, was essentially a useful thug. "He beats people up in the dark for a living, but he gets things done," he said, approvingly. The message was clear: sure, he’s a Frankenstein’s monster, but he’s our monster. Perhaps more accurately, it appears he’s really been President Jacob Zuma’s monster all along. Until now, it hasn’t been totally clear how it was that Motsoeneng could remain untouchable despite having taken a sledgehammer to the SABC’s integrity, and despite furious opposition from ANC heavyweights like Jackson Mthembu. Finally, we have a lucid answer, emerging from the carnage described by the "SABC Eight", the whistleblowers who told parliament this week, in gory detail, how Motsoeneng turned the broadcaster into a propaganda arm for the more unsavoury elements within Zuma’s ANC
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