A plan by communications minister Faith Muthambi to change legislation to remove parliamentary oversight of the SABC and concentrate it in her office has drawn scathing criticism from the Democratic Alliance. A newspaper report at the weekend said that Muthambi intends stripping
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The SABC on Thursday rubbished claims it is preparing to “dump” almost all its Afrikaans language shows on SABC2 and move the language’s programming to SABC3. This was after a blog titled “TV with Thinus”, reportedly written by a Thinus Ferreira, was published on Thursday claiming that Afrikaans was getting
The SABC has been instructed to appoint a new CEO within the next three months, communications minister Faith Muthambi said on Tuesday. “The entities reporting to the ministry have a clear directive from me to stabilise their leadership,” Muthambi told a media briefing at parliament. “To this end I have recently
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng must apologise for his interpretation of a Venda ritual at which he thought he was being offered a wife, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. “The patriarchal and sexist assumptions in Motsoeneng’s actions and handling of this issue are deeply worrying,” the
The women’s ministry welcomed on Thursday the investigation of the gift of a wife to SABC acting chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. “As the department responsible for the championing of the rights of women, we cannot sit back and allow women to be treated like secondary
Government has backtracked on plans to have communications regulator Icasa report to the newly created department of communications, which also houses the SABC, Brand South Africa and other entities, a highly placed source with knowledge of the development has told TechCentral. Instead
Traditional Venda chiefs have given SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng a wife, a cow and a calf, the Sowetan reported on Friday. Women were lined up in Thohoyandou, Limpopo, on Wednesday for Motsoeneng to choose one. He and other SABC executives were
Mmamoloko Kubayi has been named as the new chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services. The position was effectively held previously by Eric Kholwane. The communications portfolio committee, which now looks after the SABC and communications regulator
Newly appointed Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane has appointed Marian Shinn as the party’s spokesman on telecommunications and postal services. Shinn had been shadow communications minister before President Jacob Zuma split the
What was the president thinking? Last Sunday, Jacob Zuma sent shockwaves through South Africa’s technology industry by dumping his hardworking communications minister, Yunus Carrim – arguably the most competent person to fill the portfolio since the 1990s – and splitting the ministry in