SABC board members Lumko Mtide, John Danana, Cedric Gina, Desmond Golding, Adv. Cawe Mahlati and Noluthando Gosa has now all quit and sent resignation letters and are following the SABC chairperson dr.Ben Ngubane and deputy chairperson Thami Ka Plaatjie out the door.
"President Jacob Zuma has received six more letters of resignation from members of the South African Broadcasting Corporation," says the office of the presidency in a just-issued statement.
"The president has accepted their resignations."
The office of the presidency says "the president has requested the minister of communications, Dina Pule, to liaise with the national assembly regarding the process to fill the vacancies left by the members who have resigned."
The SABC has now been truly plunged into the biggest executive and management chaos and crisis the broadcaster has ever experienced.
The SABC board - what's left of it can't function or meet, there is no clarity on whether the matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng is or isn't still the acting chief operating officer (COO) - his removal by the SABC of which instigated the crisis and plunged the broadcaster into the meltdown it's experiencing.
With six of the nine last remaining SABC board members now also gone, only three SABC board members are left. The SABC is now functioning without any governing body.
