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.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed eight new board members to fill the vacancies on the board of the SABC with immediate effect.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has adopted a final report that recommends eight candidates to fill the SABC board.
The portfolio committee on communications has allocated three weeks to complete the process of filling vacancies on the board of the SABC.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has apologised for an altercation she had with an SABC news crew who were filming an ANC provincial rally in the Eastern Cape on Saturday.
The SABC has put its retrenchment plan on hold following “constructive and extensive” engagements with various stakeholders.
The financial distressed SABC failed to pay its employees on time this month, but the public broadcaster has said it’s not because it’s run out of money. Instead, it has blamed a “glitch” at its bank for the problem.
Three media companies have collectively been fined tens of millions of rand for price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions. The Competition Commission wants the firms to cough up for their “cartel conduct”.
The government is facing potentially unpopular decisions needed to fix state companies. So far, it’s shied away from hard choices.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signalled he doesn’t back a proposal from the struggling state-owned power utility for the government to assume a large portion of its debt.