The beleaguered South African public broadcaster is taking action against high-level executives at the SABC involved in unauthorised spending totalling more than a hundred million rand with payments made for events ranging from the trashproduced South African Sports Awards to Sapa, SuperSport, the South Africa Football Association (Safa) and Cricket South Africa (CSA).
The SABC incurred R114 million in irregular expenditure and is now taking action against the SABC officials who were responsible or involved in payments for events shown on SABC television each totalling millions of rands and which were broadcast without any signed contracts or payments which were made for events without proper contracts actually being in place.
The payments include Cricket South Africa who was paid R28 million and SuperSport which was paid R5,2 million for the broadcasting rights to the Tri-Nations home rugby tests in 2011.
The SABC forked over R7,5 million to Sports rights holder Sport Five and the South African Football Association (Safa) to show the soccer matches against Burkina Faso and Egypt in which Bafana Bafana played.
The SABC paid R2,1 million for the broadcast of the South African Sports Awards classified as irregular spending. Another R2,6 million was paid by the SABC for a Confederation of African Football (CAF) under-20 event.
The SABC also paid the South African Press Association (Sapa) R4 million within the public broadcaster's radio division.
