SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was headhunted by the broadcaster and it is therefore incorrect to say he misrepresented himself to obtain a position, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Norman Arendse, for Motsoeneng, told the Western Cape high court Motsoeneng was
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SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng should not be punished for a lie he told 19 years ago, the broadcaster said in court papers, according to The New Age on Thursday. SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala denied that the broadcaster and communications minister Faith Muthambi rewarded “malfeasance” when permanently appointing
Public protector Thuli Madonsela has subpoenaed communications minister Faith Muthambi as part of her investigation into the permanent appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as SABC chief operating officer, her office said on Wednesday. “The public protector wrote to the minister last month requesting a meeting and the minister
The SABC broadcasts a variety of news that helps deepen democracy, communications minister Faith Muthambi said in an opinion piece in The New Age on Wednesday. “On the news front, the Broadcasting Act commits the SABC to a plurality of views and a variety of news, information, and analysis from a South African point of view
Newly licensed pay-television operator Siyaya TV, which hopes to offer consumers a low-cost bouquet using digital terrestrial television transmission, has reportedly secured a R1bn broadcast deal for the rights to broadcast Bafana Bafana football games. According to the City Press newspaper, the deal gives Siyaya the rights
A stadium in Bluegumbosch, QwaQwa, in the Free State, will be renamed after SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, The New Age reported on Friday. “It was decided unopposed by the community that the facility be named after Motsoeneng because the people felt he had done a lot of good things
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has filed papers opposing the Democratic Alliance’s court challenge to the appointment of SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. “I have already done that,” she told reporters at
Government’s centralised IT services and technology procurement organisation, the State IT Agency, will in future no longer report into the minister of public service and administration. Rather, it will in future report into the ministry of telecommunications and postal services, headed by Siyabonga Cwele. This is one of a
