CWU IS IN HIGH SPIRITS WITH SOLLY MOKOETLE SUSPENSION

30 August 2010

The Communication Workers Union welcomes the suspension of the GCEO of the SABC, Mr Solly Mokoetle. We have been raising our concern as CWU of how Solly Mokoetle and Dr Ben Ngubane have been running SABC like an unlicensed establishment.

We also note the allegation made by Solly Mokoetle in his letter accusing some board members of making the SABC an employment agency. We view these allegations from Mr Mokoetle as the last kicks of a dying horse.

CWU is very concerned with a congregation of more than One hundred and twenty (120) General Managers at SABC. We hope that these general managers are not part of the passengers that are concentrating on pleasing Solly Mokoetle while he is destroying our public broadcaster.

We have detected some demagogic tendencies from certain hooligans who are sending SMS's at SABC saying the SABC Board members must be dissolved and General Secretary of CWU, Cde Gallant Roberts must be recalled from the Union. We have noted that theirs is a lone voice that is out of sync with the rest of the right thinking and objective South Africans, who do not require specialised spectacles to see that the problem at the SABC is its CEO and Chairperson - and now of late, the Head of News who was recently appointed under dubious circumstances and his salary increased abnormally.

Statement issued by Matankana Mothapo Communication Workers Union National Spokesperson, August 30 2010

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