New SABC board members will be appointed to replace the current interim SABC board who can only serve until September.
The current interim SABC board were appointed and rushed through parliament following the mass exodus when the entire SABC board resigned earlier this year following a major falling out and infighting between SABC board members and Dina Pule, the former minister of communications who has now been found guilty of major corruption charges.
The multiparty task team will have to whittle down the CVs to 30 by next week Thursday, after which the interview process for SABC board members will start again.
The flawed process to appoint SABC board members happen through political appointments where names are pushed through by political parties, with names then going to the national assembly where they're being rubber-stamped by president Jacob Zuma.
The SABC has had four different SABC boards in the past five years since 2008, with several SABC board members clueless about the industry and basic fundamentals of broadcasting and lacking leadership and broadcasting background. Meanwhile the SABC continues to lurch from crisis to crisis.
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition, a broadbased public interest group representing the vast South African television industry, is calling on parliament to "select high-flying, skilled and accountable leaders with integrity and a deep sense of public service to the position."
"Were personal and political relationships to take precedence to these very important traits, the SABC board would be doomed from the start," says the SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition.
