SABC ignores Ministers' orders to stop job cuts

[Jamie McKane]

SABC ignores Ministers' orders to stop job cuts

The SABC board plans to defy an instruction from Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi to halt its retrenchment process.

The state broadcaster will continue its retrenchment process affecting 400 workers next year in an effort to save costs.

 

[Hemi300c]

Stella should be first on the list

 

[Milano]

Too bad the the entire structure from government down to its entities is a socialist collective with no responsibility and no accountability. Good luck with trying to fix all the fsckups you made within that globally failed framework.

 

[Ianf1]

This looks like a consequence of SOE directors being grilled at the Zondo commission so they are taking their duties seriously. Let's hope this is the start of a trend.

 

[Caenan]

If they are willing to cut 400 jobs it means they are probably over staffed same as eskom. Problem is that the corruptors will then have more to pocket.... Start with top dogs.... The unions can cause blackouts..... Hooorrrraaaayyyy..... Who still watches SABC in any case

 

[shearder]

Cut them all in fact. We don't need the sabc. Also, what's good for one is good for another. Government employees are having a great ride thus corona bs period.
Many of us are jobless.

 

[RonSwanson]

Stella should be first on the list

Absoluitely, don't blame them from ignoring this completely silly bish, she has less brains than Myeni but an ego twice the size.

 

[Shadowchaser1]

As long as you have a Gov that's flogging a dead horse, in fact a loads of it, things will never improve. Unfortunately that's how the world works. MSM is a dying breed. Network news is more the in thing. Glad I left in 2003.

 

[boboudts]

Ah, the anc and their vaccuos socialist ideology, always believing they can have their cake and eat it and that capitistism will be a soft touch....those days are over "comrades"!

Get real.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Government is kow towing to Unions, they are telling the SABC to look at other options. The SABC does not have other options. The Government as usual is not being helpful in any way at all.

If there are any other options that the SABC, has not looked at, Government should point them out as, what about this or that, ...

 

[deesef]

It's strange that the ANC are so opposed to staff reduction in bloated SABC, Escom, SAA, etc, but they stood by idly while Telkom reduced their staff by about 80% over the last 20 years.

Not saying that Telkom should not have reduced staff, but why the double standard?

 

[Gordon_R]

It's strange that the ANC are so opposed to staff reduction in bloated SABC, Escom, SAA, etc, but they stood by idly while Telkom reduced their staff by about 80% over the last 20 years.

Not saying that Telkom should not have reduced staff, but why the double standard?

I'll likely get into trouble for this, but it might answer your (rhetorical) question:
The majority of ex-Telkom staff have actual skills, and are now gainfully employed in the public sector. For the other SOEs you listed, the opposite is probably true...

 

[RVQ]

South African SOEs and Government Departments are probably the only entities in the world where intelligence levels drop the higher up the command chain you go. I do feel story for the the average Joe on the ground who is outnumbered by managers and short-staffed with having to do all the work but still faces retrenchment. This is the true legacy of the Guptas strategically placing the dumbest of the dumb at the top so they could control them like the muppets they are.

 

[boboudts]

Good, it's about time the boards of these soe's stood up to the anc's political meddling and particularly their little girl who is a mere stooge and compliant messenger for their central control, communist troika!

 

[Bewlen]

Our "leedahs" in guavament still trying to save face. Unaware that they don't actually have any face left. Unaware that they are actually a laughing stock to everyone except those pouring money into their black-hole coffers, through taxes.

smh.

TIA.

FML.

 

[tjma2001]

The unions are the biggest losers here. And they know what this means. If the SABC can successfully retrench workers here, they can do it at Eskom as well. This means declining revenues, and it positions the unions as being less useful.

They are useless. They have worked hand in hand with the corrupt.They only complain about the corruption when things are going wrong. When has a union come forward and taken any of these corrupt companies to court proactively. noooo .. its always "our workers are innocent"

They are mostly, but the unions are as guilty as the politicians here.

 

[grok]

Not even their own membas have respect for them or fear their authority. Lol what a circus this place has become.