"The SABC board has lost credibility":

SACP Statement on SABC board advertising CEO position

The SABC board has lost massive credibility. It has little if any credibility remaining to inspire public confidence after perpetually failing to perform its functions in terms of the law. Advertising the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) as it has now done after unlawfully appointing Hlaudi Motsoeneng and supporting him to serve illegally as the Chief Operations Officer does not restore any credibility to the current SABC board. It is now too late for the current SABC board to restore the broken trust and confidence of the public. 

It is obvious that the SABC board has advertised the CEO position under duress and with the hope of retaining their own precarious position, having previously failed to make reasonable, informed and objective decisions when they were required to do so either in terms of the law or simple common sense based on applicable SABC policies.

The move is suspicious because the probability is that they will appoint someone who will carry out the interests that they have been advancing whether or not they remain as board members amidst widespread calls that Parliament must institute a hearing on their failure to carry out their duties properly.

The board must be held accountable for the decay in governance that resulted in the SABC wasting billions of rands in irregular expenditure and defence of undefendable decisions, as well as for the millions more of rands that went down the drain through loss.  

In order to avoid any further damage or irreparable harm Parliament must urgently hold the necessary hearing into the future of the current SABC board. 

Statement issued by the SACP, 2 October 2016