The unmitigated disaster that is the SABC's top management yielded even more clues of the utter mismanagement, leaderless disfunction and lack of any semblance of corporate governance at the beleaguered public broadcaster during yesterday's appearance of the SABC board before parliament.
It turns out that the SABC's acting group CEO, Robin Nicholson (because group CEO Solly Mokoetle has been suspended) isn't really the acting group CEO of the SABC after all and acting in that capacity ''illegally''. ''As I sit here next to Robin Nicholson he is legally not the acting group CEO because the board has not been able to agree. We are in an illegal situation," dr Ben Ngubane, the chairperson of the SABC board said yesterday. Incredulous!
What's more, after those four resignations from the SABC board of Felleng Sekha, David Niddrie, Barbara Masekela and Magatho Mello (who have all been sensored and are not allowed to talk by the way), the SABC board now longer has a quorum. The SABC board used to have 12 members of which 9 form a quorum. With four resignations, there's only 8 SABC board members left. Incredulous!
The SABC board is now set to tentatively return to parliament on Thursday, November 4 when they will again appear before the portfolio committee on communications.
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