39 nominations received for the vacant position on the SABC board following Clifford Motsepe's resignation.

Parliament's portfolio committee on communications has received 39 nominations by the end of June for the vacant position on the SABC board.

The SABC board has one vacant position since the resignation of Clifford Motsepe in April this year.

The portfolio committee is now busy creating a shortlist out of the 39 candidates after which the usual process of interviews will follow before a candidate's name is put forward for president Jacob Zuma to rubber stamp for approval.

The 39 CV's were summarised, qualifications checks were done and security clearance results are still pending, says the portfolio committee on communications.

WHO KNEW? Another SABC board member gone as Clifford Motsepe resigns; half of the new SABC appointed in 2010 now gone.

Who knew? Nobody.

Another SABC board member is a gonner with Clifford Motsepe who is out as a SABC board member since he became the Limpopo Cooperative Governance MEC.

The SABC board members who have now resigned since the new SABC board took office in 2010 is a staggering 6.

Clifford Motsepe quietly resigned and his resignation is awaiting the official stamp of approval of president Jacob Zuma.

Career politicians can't serve as SABC board members (although their political loyalties are always very obvious) and Clifford Motsepe was forced to resign when he took political office in the province.