Browsing: Hlaudi Motsoeneng

Controversial former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has run out of legal options.

Media organisations have voiced their concern at the abrupt cancellation of public hearings on the contentious SABC Bill.

The former SABC COO has still not paid back all the money he owes the corporation and is digging in for a fight.

Michael Markovitz reflects on five tumultuous years on the SABC board and why, despite the challenges, he still believes in public broadcasting.

The high court has ordered former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng to pay R11.5-million to the public broadcaster within seven days.

The SABC has launched what it calls a “target operating model” designed to ensure it is self-sufficient and financially sustainable so it doesn’t again have to go to government, cap in hand, for a bailout.

MultiChoice has strongly criticised former communications minister Yunus Carrim, who on Tuesday told the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture that a controversial 2013 channel supply agreement between MultiChoice and the SABC amounted to “policy capture”.

While state-owned enterprises such as Eskom, SAA and the SABC continue to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, one (partially) state-owned company is doing quite well, thank you very much. By Duncan McLeod.

Chris Maroleng, the former MTN Group senior executive, has been fired as chief operating officer of the public broadcaster with immediate effect. He had been in the role for just over a year.

The Competition Commission said on Monday that the controversial channel-supply agreement between MultiChoice and the SABC, signed in 2013, amounted to a merger.