Sad Solly's simply gotta go: ''SABC board is fully committed to get rid of Solly Mokoetle,'' says insider.

The SABC board is slowly but surely wriggling the knife deeper and deeper. In ''return'' for keeping up with the insipidly sorry broadcasting bom dr Ben Ngubane as SABC chairman and finally caving to his unilateral decision to appoint Phil Molefe as the SABC's head of news, they will now have the scalp of the SABC's group CEO Solly Mokoetle.

''Basically it's a trade-off of sorts. Phil for Solly,'' a source close to the SABC board tells me. ''The disaster [with the appointment of] with Phil Molefe made the SABC board [who finally chose to confirm the unilateral appointment] adamant that it will give them even greater leverage and substantial charges against Solly,'' I'm told.

''The SABC board's fully committed to get rid of Solly Mokoetle. Cannot stand him,'' I'm told by another high-level SABC insider with knowledge of the current situation (but who's not an SABC board member). Solly Mokoetle is currently suspended with a wide range of accusations leveled agsinst hime by the SABC board, arguing that Solly Mokoetle has not done enough to implement a turn-around strategy for the beleaguered public broadcaster as he was tasked to do.