The SABC in chaos & crisis: Dina Pule, the minister of communications, is accused of causing the chaos at the SABC and creating the crisis which has led to the utter implosion of the SABC's corporate governance when all but one of the SABC board members resigned during the past 14 days in a public, bitter, conflict-fuelled meltdown of infighting at the highest level of the SABC.
The beleaguered public broadcaster facing the biggest crisis in the crumbling corporation's history is without any governing body and its public image and reputation in tatters.
Today in parliament before parliament's portfolio committee on communications, Suzanne Vos, one of the last three remaining SABC board members - before she, too quit - blasted Dina Pule and dr. Ben Ngubane, the SABC chairperson who quit last week, for their meddling and interference.
"At the heart of this crisis - if one can call it that - is the view, not only of my own, that ministerial interference in board decision-making and the functioning of the SABC has become extremely problematic," said Suzanne Vos, pointing fingers at Dina Pule.
Then Suzanne Vos blasted dr. Ben Ngubane.
The singular, unilateral decision-making of the chairman, dr. Ben Ngubane, has been previously brought to the attention of this committee of parliament," Suzanne Vos said.
Dina Pule didn't hold back. Dina Pule told the portfolio committee that she was "relieved" that the portfolio committee supports the disbanding of the SABC board because the public broadcaster "needs a functioning board".
"If they don't do that by the end of March; if we don't have a SABC board, there will be an audit query against us," said Dina Pule in parliament. "I'm relieved that the leadership of the committee is helping us to have a board."
SABC board members who have already quit, blamed Dina Pule for the widening crisis at the SABC. "She tried to overturn our decisions when she does not have the power to do so," said one SABC board member who had resigned this week.
