SABC boss Hlaudi Motsoeneng gave the broadcaster’s acting news head Jimi Matthews a dressing down in front of staff this week at a meeting about leaks from within the corporation. Motsoeneng, who is the SABC’s acting chief operating officer, called a meeting on Tuesday with news staff and warned them they would face consequences
Browsing: Zandile Tshabalala
The Right2Know Campaign and SOS: Support Public Broadcasting have written to the controversial SABC board chair, Zandile Tshabalala, to ask her whether she invoked the National Key Points Act to warn staff not to leak information to the public, as staff have claimed. This was not the first time the National Key Points
The SABC’s newsrooms are in the grip of paranoia ahead of the general election with fears of eavesdropping and phone interceptions. This comes after editorial staff members were “reminded” by the co-operation’s chairperson, Ellen Zandile Tshabalala, that they should stop leaks because they were working in a national key point
SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala was nominated by her board to act as group CEO of the public broadcaster shortly after Lulama Mokhobo resigned from the post, but the communications minister was not having any of it. Tshabalala’s nomination to the acting post had to be approved
The SABC will soon have new leadership as the parliamentary portfolio committee announced the final list of names to be recommended for the new board on Tuesday afternoon. But this was not without controversy as the opposition parties represented in the committee have objected to the list
The decision to dissolve the embattled SABC board and appoint an interim board was bulldozed through parliament, opposition parties claimed in the national assembly on Tuesday. Speaking during a short debate in the house, Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn said the problems at the SABC, which led