An openly defiant SABC board chairperson dr. Ben Ngubane just issued a statement with a thinly veiled attack and rebuke on the SABC board for daring to question his supreme decision making power at the public broadcaster.
Saying he did nothing wrong, dr. Ben Ngubane claims in a statement released minutes ago, that there's been no breach of governance and that the SABC board shouldn't talk about ''any issues they may have'' in the public domain.
After igniting a firestorm by instructing the SABC's group CEO Solly Mokoetle to appoint Phil Molefe as the SABC's new head of news, a defiant dr. Ben Ngubane is now saying in a new statement trying to spin the whole issue in his favour, that he ''calls on all SABC board members to come to the correct forum, to address any issues they may have.''
It's very strange and spin-filled words coming from the obviously arrogant dr. Ben Ngubane who was in the first place not available yesterday on Friday. It's also ironic because both he and Solly Mokoetle have been requested by the SABC board to attend today's emergency SABC board meeting taking place later this afternoon at the SABC, and not the other way around. The SABC board is indeed using their forum to to get him to talk to them - which is what dr. Ben Ngubane should have done out of his own initiative in the first place.
In his stunning statement, filled with a very aggressive stance and seemingly touting his supreme leadership whilst trying to underscore his seemingly unilateral decision-making power at the SABC, dr. Ben Ngubane now says he ''believes all processes were followed and there was no breach of corporate governance''.
''After considering all the factors before me that necessitated the speedy finalization of this process'', he says ''I made the decision as a leader to instruct the group CEO Solly Mokoetle to finalise the appointment of Phil Molefe because he satisfied all the requirements as agreed to by all SABC board members.''
You're completely missing the point dear dr. Ben Ngubane. You might be the leader at the beleaguered public broadcaster, but you're definitely not the decision maker. The full SABC board makes the decision, and that is also how is was agreed upon originally. That is also where the word corporate governance, meaning collective leadership, comes from. Why do you have a board if you're just going to take your own decisions? And how good is your corporate governance if you can't even inform and tell them of your unilateral decisions and have them hear about what you've decided and is going on inside the SABC through the media?
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