The financially struggling and cash-strapped SABC will be forking out an unbudgeted, estimated R5,7 million to convert 22 video editors to full-time permanent staff members, ordered by the public broadcaster's acting chief operating officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
Despite the bloated SABC being over-staffed and the beleaguered public broadcaster having failed to reduce staff at the SABC, the technical employees will only work for 3 weeks a month despite getting a full month's salary.
One of the stipulated requirements set by the government for the R1,4 billion bail-out the SABC received in 2009 in the form of a government loan through Nedbank was that the SABC's personnel count would be decreased, something the SABC has so far not done.
Adding the employees as full-time SABC staff members wasn't budgeted for.