As South Africa's TV industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief
after the firing of the scandal-riddled Dina Pule as the minister of communications her replacement
Yunus Carrim now says he is "excrusiatingly aware of the need to stabilise the SABC board and it's management. We need to improve its performance".
Yunus Carrim says "there is no reason why we cannot move with due expedition. We have these huge challenges and limited time, so we cannot afford not to move fast".
A day after the announcement that he is the fourth new minister of communications in South Africa in six years,
Yunus Carrim said that "the plans for the SABC are not plans which I make alone" and admitted that the public's patience with the SABC is finished.
"We simply have no choice. The public out there, the business community, trade union movements and society have reached a limit of tolerance about the difficulties we have been having in the SABC. We are all committed to work with the public out there in turning around the SABC and the ITC sector."
