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The SABC board has come out guns blazing against the foolhardy, unilateral, secretive and shortsighted ''appointment'' by the SABC board chairman dr. Ben Ngubane and the SABC's group CEO Solly Mokoetle of Phil Molefe as the SABC's new head of news last week, calling the purported appointment ''null and void with no legal effect''.
The SABC board - which is the body tasked and responsible for making the appointment for this crucial position at South Africa's public broadcaster - just issued a press statement clearly indicating that the board believes that dr. Ben Ngubane has severely overstepped his boundaries and has overreached in ordering Solly Mokoetle to ''appoint'' Phil Molefe. ''The SABC board believes that the trust and credibility that needs to be restored in the SABC must start with transparent and clear rules of corporate governance''.
The SABC board reveals that 10 out of the 12 SABC board members attended yesterday afternoon's emergency board meeting [''emergency'' is my word, they call it merely ''special'']. ''After deliberating for several hours yesterday afternoon and evening, the SABC board unanimously agreed that the appointment of Phil Molefe as chief executive of news and current affairs was not legal''. The SABC board has now decided that the process of assessing candidates - which has not yet been concluded, must continue. ''The SABC board regrets any embarrassment to any of the candidates for the position,'' says the statement. ''The SABC board stands by its commitment when taking office in January to oversee the reorganisation and revival of the SABC as a national public broadcaster worthy of the people of South Africa.''
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