Meeting with SABC was a 'normal commercial negotiation' - MultiChoice
30 November 2017
Johannesburg – Pay-TV company MultiChoice has denied being involved in any "untoward" dealings, including having secret meetings, or taking part in anything illegal, with the SABC.
The company released a statement on Thursday, saying it had had "no secret clandestine meeting, no kickbacks, nothing untoward, just [a] normal commercial negotiation".
"I attended that meeting – it was certainly not secret and there is nothing illegal or improper in those minutes," Nolo Letele, executive chairperson of MultiChoice South Africa Holdings, said in the statement.
On Wednesday, City Press reported that the pay-TV company, that owns DStv and M-Net, was accused of paying millions in kickbacks to the SABC in exchange for the public’s broadcaster "political influence over digital migration".