Dina Pule said the further stabilisation at the beginning of 2012 has helped the SABC. "It looks like the SABC is going on the positive," said Dina Pule. ''Revenue is growing," she said.
The SABC is meanwhile beset by a "new" range of ongoing problems, festering on for multiple months.
Four months after being placed on "special leave", the SABC's head of news and current affairs, Phil Molefe, has still not had his disciplinary hearing with the SABC's CEO Lulama Mokhobo. Meanwhile he's getting a salary.
Also keep in mind that the SABC intends to launch its new 24-hour TV news channel to replace the failed SABC News International at the beginning of September on MultiChoice's DStv pay-TV platform. Meanwhile the SABC's de facto news boss is absent to steer or direct this crucial new venture which the SABC told parliament forms part of the beleaguered public broadcaster's turnaround strategy.
Then there is the SABC board which has passed a motion of no confidence in SABC board member Cawe Mahlati, which means that the SABC board wants her gone. Meanwhile the SABC board has not yet replaced the gap on the SABC board left by the resignation of SABC board member Clifford Motsepe earlier this year.
In all likelihood therefore, the SABC board seat of Clifford Motsepe will just be filled in the last quarter of this year when president Jacob Zuma rubber-stamps a replacement as put forward by parliament's portfolio committee for communications, when yet another gap on the SABC board arises if Cawe Mahlati is removed.
Don't forget about the massive fire damage to the SABC when Henley Studios went up in smoke 3 months ago.
Don't forget about the SABC telling government earlier this year that it will require billions - yes, a "b" - more for digital terrestrial migration in order to successfully present an offering for digital terrestrial television (DTT) and that the current budget isn't adequate.
