Sasfed has now joined the large SABC trade union Bemawu that has also called for the resignation of dr Ben Ngubane on 25 October.
Sasfed, calling for dr Ben Ngubane to resign, says that it believes that ''the turnaround of the SABC will continue to be impossible to achieve under the present leadership''.
Sasfed cites the continued delay in the appointment of a permanent CEO, COO and CFO at the SABC, the SABC's lack of significant commissioning of local content since 2008, the ''continued chaos at the national broadcaster such as the Justice Ndaba fiasco, the sudden firing of the company secretary, the luxury car saga, and daily reports of maladministration, corruption, wasteful and fruitless expenditure'', the ''continued lack of respect accorded to the independent film and television production sector by the national broadcaster and SABC's delays and refusals to engage with us as equals'', as the main reasons for calling for dr Ben Ngubane to step down.
Sasfed says that the federation will be asking the new minister of communications, Dina Pule ''to urgently appoint a caretaker administration, publicly nominated from the public sector'' to take financial, editorial and administrative control of the national public broadcaster ''until such time as the SABC finances are returned to profitability, local content quotas are restored to their legal mnimum requirements and the SABC can meet its mandate and its reputation is restored''.
Sasfed says it believes that ''the entire turnaround of the SABC is being unduly influenced by political manoeuvring and hidden agendas'' and that ''the SABC board and acting management have no real intention of engaging in good faith and in a meaningful way with the independent production sector''. ''The continued collapse of sections of the independent production sector is mainly due to lack of commissioning by the national broadcaster,'' says Sasfed.
Meanwhile the Support Public Broadcasting (SOS) Coalition, says Hlaudi Motsoeneng, the SABC's group executive for stakeholder management and provinces and the acting group executive for human capital promised the SOS Coalition a written response from dr Ben Ngubane by the end of this past Friday on the SOS Coalition's questions put to dr Ben Ngubane in which the SOS Coalition said that it was ''disappointed'' and ''disillusioned'' with dr Ben Ngubane. The SOS Coalition says it has received no answers by the end of Friday on its questions.
The SABC didn't immediately respond to a media enquiry made regarding Sasfed's call for the immediate resignation of dr Ben Ngubane.
