Parliament has chosen a new permanent SABC board that includes the entire 5-person interim SABC board as well as one former SABC board member but not a single person from South Africa's TV production sector responsible for giving the SABC its local content.
The names of the 12 SABC board nominees will become permanent after president Jacob Zuma has rubber-stamped their appointment.
On Tuesday parliament's portfolio committee for communications nominated the entire 5-person SABC interim board to continue serving. These include Khanyisile Kweyama, Mathatha Tsedu, Krish Naidoo, Febe Potgieter-Gqubule and John Matisonn.
The former SABC board member Rachel Kalidass who was fired previously, has been chosen to return.
Other members include Nomvuyiso Batyi, Michael Markovitz, Bongumusa Makhathini, Dinkwanyane Mohuba, Victor Rambau and Jack Phalane.
The 12 names will be submitted to the National Assembly for adoption and recommendation to President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday.
The term of the current interim SABC board expires at the end of this month.
The new SABC board interestingly doesn't include a single person from South Africa's production industry, although some applied.
With the SABC sinking financially and losing ratings, the South African public broadcaster desperately needs people with actual, broad-based broadcasting experience - something in short supply in the new SABC board.
Going forward, the struggling SABC battling to pay producers and production companies and to make quality local content, will not have a single person from this very important sector representing their voice on the SABC board.
In a statement on Tuesday afternoon the Democratic Alliance (DA) political party's member of parliament, Phumzile Van Damme, said that the ANC political party, "given an opportunity to give the SABC a new start", instead "chose to use their majority to force unsuitable candidates onto the SABC board".
"Despite the best efforts of the DA and other opposition parties in the committee, it seems as through cadre-deployment is yet again set to return to the SABC".
The DA and other opposition parties strongly objected to the re-deployment of ANC cadres Febe Potgieter-Gqubule and Krish Naidoo on the new SABC board.
The EFF political party member of parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said Febe Potgieter-Gqubule "failed dismally to understand the times and epoch the SABC is entering. She thinks it is correct being an ANC deployee into the board".
Febe Potgieter-Gqubule revealed during her interview that she could be running for the ANC NEC if nominated, and Krish Naidoo word as a legal advisor in Luthuli House for the ANC.
Dikwanyane Mohuba who also has no broadcasting experience is connected to former ANC Limpopo chairperson Cassel Mathale and Bongumusa Makhathini who knows nothing about public broadcasting is the chairperson of the foundation of Jacob Zuma's wife, Bongi Ngema-Zuma.
