DA welcomes 12 names put forward for SABC Board
25 November 2022
Negotiating one’s way through the minefield that is a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee is an art mastered only after many years in this business.
While expertise should, in my view, have been at the top of the "must have" register, during the selection of the SABC Board in Committee, the ANC predictably resorted to bean-counting in terms of gender, race, age and representation of the minorities.
All parties agreed that former Board member, Dr Renee Horne, should return, which would provide continuity.
However top of my list by far was the former SABC head of news, Phatiswa Magopeni. She scored full marks on my scorecard in her interview and while others were brilliant, such as Advocate Tseliso Thipanyane (an expert on the constitution) and former journalist Professor Franz Kruger, she was head and shoulders above the rest.