What kind of morons are running the SABC?
The utter idiots running the South African public broadcaster further into the ground instead of working to get the ailing broadcasting behemoth off of life support, threw its own chief financial officer (CFO) and acting group CEO Robin Nicholson under the bus in the wrongest way possible.
This move is clearly going to cost the SABC millions of rands for the recalcitrant, idiotic, unthoughtful and completely unbelievable way in which SABC executives who are supposed to know better, are exposing themselves as public broadcaster emperors without clothes: incompetent primary school children bickering and fighting endlessly without any macro sense of what exactly their shortsighted actions are really causing.
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What other than the biggest lof if imbeciles do you call the sorry group of people at the SABC who can't think, and don't realize the following:
- Your chief financial officer and your acting CEO has access to everything. He knows all your financials, all your plans, all your stuff and your complete turnaround strategy which he himself helped craft. How can you NOT - if you have to dispose of this person - not do it the right way? If this person sues or takes legal action, he knows exactly how much money he can get. He knows exactly what happened in the long string of previous pay-outs when you got rid of top level executives incorrectly and why it went wrong. And now you did it to him as well and again in what appears to be not the correct way. Unbelievable.
- How can you allegedly make an offer to allegedly extend a person's contract and then allegedly, while the person is on leave, recind that offer and instead inform the person that he's out of a contract?
- How can you pass decisions and make massive appointments when your chairperson is not present and not attending the meeting, without which everything and anything you do and decide is apparently invalid because it's not properly constituted? Where is the transparency to the public as a public broadcaster?
- Earlier this year the SABC, sweating it out in front of parliament's portfolio committee on communications, told parliament that the broadcaster took a severe knock in revenue due to a drop in advertising and sponsorship because of the barrage of negative publicity at the corporation because of executive drama, infighting and stories about instability. It stands to reason that the SABC therefore has at least some level of self-awareness that this negative publicity stems from its own actions. And yet again the SABC absolutely continues in this way, and refuses to change the way it operates on executive and board level and make the seemingly same disastrous decisions again in disposing of people in the wrongest way possible.
