This comes after the shoddy, inept and seemingly clueless report back by the SABC this morning by the SABC board before parliament's portfolio committee on communications. This morning the SABC started begging for money from government again, while the suffering South African public broadcaster got pummeled by the monitoring team and the National Treasury for multiple failings ranging from non-existent budgets and plans to the flouting of the terms of the government loan guarantee that gave the SABC access to R1,4 billion two years ago.
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The committee demanded that the SABC board and its chairperson, dr Ben Ngubane, return to parliament in mid-October to explain what is going on Fawlty Towers.
''It's worrying that the SABC is not meeting a number of its government guarantee targets and that they're asking for public funding for more that just digital terrestrial television (DTT), for instance their new channels, retrenchment packages, subsidies for shortfalls in license fee revenues,'' Kate Skinner, SOS coordinator tells TV with Thinus.
''They need to get their house in order before they get further public funds,'' Kate Skinner says about the SABC. She attended this morning's session in parliament. ''As SOS we have always said that the SABC needs a new funding model but first we need to know that they are spending the money they have efficiently and effectively.''
She said its extremely shocking that the SABC decided to cut back on its programming budget to save money. ''It is extremely worrying that the SABC have been making funding cuts through cut backs on programming! That is unsustainable and unacceptable,'' she says. ''The SABC in particular needs to account for that!''
