He told parliament that the new SABC board has taken over a public broadcaster where there ''have been failures of governance, failures of competence and, as a consequence, loss of public faith''. He said that all of the problems that is facing the beleaguered broadcaster constitutes ''a truly massive challenge''.
Solly Mokoetle, the new CEO of the SABC said that a special turnaround task team had been appointed by the board. The board will be looking at renumeration of SABC personnel as well as the total personnel count throughout the public broadcaster. He also said that although the SABC would need to bring in some expertise, that the SABC is not looking at using consultants.
