So, there’s more trouble at Fawlty Towers in Auckland Park. Just two years into her five-year term, SABC group CEO Lulama Mokhobo is stepping down, citing “exhaustion”. It’s a fresh setback for the public broadcaster, which has lurched from one crisis to another for the best part of a decade
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SABC group CEO Lulama Mokhobo is horrified that people are mistakenly claiming she will now get a huge payout following her resignation after only two years in the hot seat. She will not be leaving under a cloud, Mokhobo said. Media reports claimed Mokhobo was accused of an abuse of power
SABC group CEO Lulama Mokhobo has cited “exhaustion”, and not her working relationship with controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, as the reason she is stepping down just two years into a five-year term at the troubled
MPs came down hard on the SABC and questioned whether the public broadcaster was capable of a successful transformation to digital broadcasting scheduled to take off in June 2015. This followed a presentation by SABC leadership on Tuesday of an independent skills
Communications minister Yunus Carrim must implement “remedial steps to arrest the perpetual management crisis at the SABC now that its entire management structure is filled with acting appointees”, said Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn. Shinn was reacting to the news
The SABC could on Wednesday neither confirm nor deny rumours that its CEO, Lulama Mokhobo, had resigned. “I am not aware of [her resignation] and I could not confirm it with anybody at the SABC,” spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said. “I cannot say yes or no until I am officially told
Employees at the SABC have been instructed not to broadcast any reports on calls for president Jacob Zuma to step down, the Right2Know (R2K) campaign and SOS Coalition claimed on Tuesday. This was simply the latest case of politically motivated interference in editorial independence at the
Legal action appears to be looming after a grouping of broadcasters and business organisations on Friday slammed cabinet’s recent decisions about migration to digital terrestrial television. This has raised the spectre of further damaging delays in South Africa’s already
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad