SABC doubled legal provisions in order to protect Hlaudi
04 October 2016
According to the recently released SABC Annual Report, legal fees went up from R171 million to R257 million and legal claims provision also doubled from R47 million to R86 million in the 2015/16 financial year.
This can only be attributable to the costly litigation that the SABC underwent in defending disgraced former COO, Mr Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who has lost every one of his legal battles, with costs.
It is outrageous that the SABC is willing to spend up to a total of R343 million on the frivolous legal cases to defend Mr Motsoeneng, when the broadcaster has just revealed that it suffered a net losses of R411 million in the same financial year.
It is even worse when you consider that this is second consecutive loss-making year as in the 2014/15 fiscal year the SABC suffered R394 million of losses.