SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala has resigned with immediate effect, the presidency said on Wednesday. Spokesman Mac Maharaj said President Jacob Zuma received and accepted her resignation as board member
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Next year was meant to be a big one for South Africa’s technology industry. Years ago, under the Mbeki administration, the government agreed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that the country would switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by 17 June 2015. Countries
President Jacob Zuma will consider a request by national assembly speaker Baleka Mbete that SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala be suspended, the presidency said on Saturday. Spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement that Mbete had asked Zuma to consider suspending Tshabalala following the
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Embattled SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala has been excluded from the new Transnet board, it emerged on Thursday. “Cabinet approved the following appointments subject to the verification of qualifications and the relevant experience,” a giggling minister
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala refuses to step down, saying she has done nothing wrong. “I’m not prepared to step down because I am not guilty of anything,” she told reporters in Johannesburg on Friday. She said a particular political party had a vested interest to destroy her image and that
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala is trying to create doubt in the public domain to avoid suspension, the Democratic Alliance said on Friday. “Tshabalala’s strategy is abundantly clear. She is attempting to create sufficient doubt
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala’s legal team will review a decision to remove her, and will probably apply for leave to appeal, she said on Friday. “When we get the decision in writing, we will review it,” Tshabalala told reporters in Johannesburg. On Wednesday, parliament’s communications portfolio
The decision by parliament’s communications portfolio committee to recommend SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala’s removal from office was “procedurally unfair”, her lawyer said on Friday. “It implies I had a fair hearing. That was not the case,” Tshabalala’s lawyer Michael Tillney said on her