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''There are too many managers in some areas and very few people are doing the actual work,'' Solly Mokoetle, the SABC's group CEO told parliament in Cape Town earlier today. The SABC had to present its new corporate strategy to government today.
He said that the South African public broadcaster is overburdened by too many managers and not enough workers to make the broadcaster operationally functional. ''There is also a problem in terms of the ratio between management and ordinary staff. We have said in this plan [the SABC's new corporate strategy plan] that one of the focuses will be to look at the structure of this organisation because we feel that administratively it is very weak,'' Solly Mokoetle said.
''The cost of the wage bill has become huge and in terms of the ratio to the delivery of the core mandate of the SABC, which is programming, it has become too high.''
Solly Mokoetle said the SABC's massive loss in revenue the past two years has happened because of scheduling disruptions and blamed ''severe scheduling instability and insecurity'' which resulted in the SABC who had to repay advertisers when commercials are being aired in other programming that is being broadcast as what media buyers originally bought airtime for. ''Then they are not sure they are going to get that viewer or not at this particular time. Particularly if scheduling is shifted at the last minute. Advertisers mentioned 'Make sure your scheduling is stable and we will bring back investments.''
