What you see, said the SABC's former boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng of himself on Wednesday, is what you get. So what did we get of Motsoeneng at his marathon press conference, which might be charitably described as bizarre and less charitably as a bit insane? For nearly four hours the Church of Hlaudi gathered at the Milpark Garden Court, in Johannesburg, so close to Motsoeneng's employers at SABC headquarters down the way that it could have been that he had returned to his spiritual home. There were more of his followers there than press representatives. There were even DJs on hand to play tracks for Motsoeneng as he arrived and before he spoke. Last night the news broke that William Mthethwa, a recording artist from the Free State, had spent R20,000 producing a Friends of Hlaudi CD. But what his supporters had hoped would be a celebration of Hlaudi might well turn out to be his funeral. He is still an SABC employee, drawing, says the DA, R350,000 a month of taxpayers' money (he confirms ...
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