DA welcomes long-overdue appointment of SABC Board
18 April 2023
After 185 days without a Board of Directors, the President finally gave in to the pressure of the Democratic Alliance, Parliament and civil society and appointed the 12-member non-executive SABC Board after deliberately delaying the appointment for as long as he could.
Parliament voted and agreed unanimously to the list of candidates on 6 December 2022, and the President continued to delay the process for a further 133 days without any legal entitlement to do so.
It is because of this delay that he currently finds himself front and centre of a Constitutional Court application by civil society for failing to perform his Constitutional duties.
The whole country knows that the delay was caused by the President and former Minister's dislike of a single candidate, Phathiswa Magopeni.