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Communications minister Yunus Carrim is continuing to engage with warring broadcasters over set-top box control for digital terrestrial television, but government will make a final decision within the next three to four weeks even if final consensus can’t be reached

The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Tuesday urged the SABC board and parliament’s communications portfolio committee to take decisive action following the public protector’s report. “Decisive action is needed to turn the SABC around in all

Acting SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was appointed irregularly to the position and committed fraud by lying repeatedly about his qualifications. These are just two of a wide number of damning findings in a report by public protector

The SABC will analyse public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report, which found its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, had operated above the law. “We have just received the report today,” said SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago

The Democratic Alliance has called on communications minister Yunus Carrim, in his capacity as shareholder representative at the SABC, to instruct the public broadcaster’s board to suspend its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with immediate

Successive SABC boards allowed controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng to operate above the law, public protector Thuli Madonsela said on Monday. She released a report entitled “When governance and ethics fail” at a media briefing

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

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