BREAKING. Senior SABC staff member bought R150 million of bad TV shows in 2010 that was never shown; took gifts for buying trash.

Shocker! A senior SABC staff member spent R150 million of the South African public broadcaster's money in 2010 alone to buy trash television never shown, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has found.

The SIU has been into corruption, fraud, unethical conduct and money wasting at the beleaguered SABC. The SIU report details one senior SABC staff member who bought R150 million in TV shows in 2010 that the SABC could never show because the quality was atrocious, inappropriate and became ''redundant''. Yet this senior SABC staff member accepted gifts from the company that sold the unusable trash television to the SABC, says the SIU report.

The SIU report states that SABC staff often take and accept gifts from content sellers, a practice the SIU report describes as being ''commonplace''.

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