Hlaudi Motsoeneng must account for lying to Parliament
24 September 2015
The DA has today requested that SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng be summoned to appear before the Communications Portfolio Committee for lying to Parliament about the SABC’s finances.
The SABC Annual Report tabled in Parliament yesterday indicated that the SABC suffered a R 395 million loss in the 2014/15 financial year.
This contradicts Motsoeneng’s statement before the Communications Portfolio Committee on 22 April 2015. He said: “The SABC, financially, we are sustainable.” Minister Muthambi agreed. “The SABC is on a sound financial footing,” she told the Committee.
Significantly, neither Muthambi nor Motsoeneng mentioned the SABC’s projected loss for this financial year. This was despite the existence of internal SABC financial documents dated March 2015 (later exposed by the Sunday Times) that indicated the SABC was due to make a massive loss.