Tuesday, March 5, 2013

BREAKING. Anarchy at the SABC! 'Corporate governance at SABC has disintegrated completely,' says parliamentary committee.


Eric Kholwane, chairperson of parliament's portfolio committee on communications, the committee tasked with oversight of the SABC, describes the latest destructive infighting at the highest executive levels of the beleaguered SABC constantly mired in scandal, as anarchy at the SABC.

Eric Kholwane says that corporate governance at the South African public broadcaster has almost disintegrated completely.

It follows after the latest bitter public and acrimonious top management clash between the SABC board and its chairman dr. Ben Ngubane over the matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

The SABC is still the biggest shameless show circus in town.

The latest shocking and very public bitter squabble is showing that those supposed to serve at the highest management and oversight positions at the beleaguered SABC are incompetent or deliberately not doing the right thing.

They're disgustingly delusional, self-servingly autocratic and simply not qualified, fit for office or suitably skilled and trained in actual broadcasting fundamentals (let alone management knowledge) to hold those positions.

Of actual leadership, vision, integrity and applied broadcasting principles at the SABC there is very little evident.

"We have a problem in that one or two people here think they are the executive and can do almost what they like," says Eric Kholwane.

The portfolio committee on communications is co-incidentally meeting today again, after the SABC board who was supposed to report back to parliament last week, simply cancelled on the committee, saying that it wasn't ready and that documents to be presented on matter such as investigations into allegations of fraud and corruption at the SABC was not ready.

Political parties are now calling for the sacking of dr. Ben Ngubane as well as the entire SABC board.