{"id":121798,"date":"2015-03-13T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=121798"},"modified":"2015-03-13T12:08:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T10:08:46","slug":"sabc-director-voted-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/121798-sabc-director-voted-out.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC director voted out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

SABC non-executive director Hope Zinde insisted on Friday that she is still a member of the public broadcaster’s board.<\/p>\n

“I want to assure you that I am still very much a member of the board of the SABC,” she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The SABC board passed a vote of no confidence in her on Thursday and removed her from the post.<\/p>\n

“I [like you] was shocked to learn from the media that I have been removed from the SABC board.”<\/p>\n

She had not been served with any documentation or informed of her removal from the board.<\/p>\n

She said she had been accused of divulging board matters she was not mandated to discuss at the African National Congress communications stakeholder lekgotla.<\/p>\n

“I am currently awaiting a process to unfold through the appointing authority, Parliament and the presidency, to look into a matter I have been alleged to have committed,” she said.<\/p>\n

The SABC announced her removal in its own statement, issued on Thursday after a meeting to discuss some members’ conduct.<\/p>\n

“Today’s meeting managed to only deal with issues relating to one non-executive director, Ms Hope Zinde, in whom the board passed a vote of no confidence and resolved to remove her as a non-executive director with effect from [Thursday],” the SABC said.<\/p>\n

The allegations levelled against the members included fraudulent conduct, raising matters of the board externally without a mandate and non-disclosure of conflict of interest, it said.<\/p>\n

Zinde accused the board of acting unlawfully under the Broadcasting Act.<\/p>\n

“The acting chairperson Prof [Obert] Maguvhe and the board members who supported him to carry out this illegal act, unquorated as they were, acted unlawfully by proceeding with a matter without any inquiry, facts nor evidence to prove the allegations that Ms Zinde divulged board matters to the ANC communications stakeholder lekgotla,” she said.<\/p>\n

SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago was available for comment.<\/p>\n

Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SABC board passed a vote of no confidence in non-executive director Hope Zinde and removed her from the post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Today’s meeting managed to only deal with issues relating to one non-executive director, Ms Hope Zinde, in whom the board passed a vote of no confidence and resolved to remove her as a non-executive director with effect from [Thursday],” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The board met to discuss the conduct of some of its members.<\/p>\n

“The allegations levelled against them include… fraudulent conduct, raising matters of the board externally without a mandate and non-disclosure of conflict of interest.”<\/p>\n

In January, board member Prof Bongani Khumalo resigned, allegedly because Communications Minister Faith Muthambi had sent letters to the board members asking why they should not be suspended.<\/p>\n

His resignation came less than a month after SABC board chairwoman Ellen Tshabalala resigned, after she was unable to provide proof of her academic qualifications, as requested by a parliamentary committee.<\/p>\n

Last year, the public broadcaster’s CEO Lulama Mokhobo resigned, and chief financial officer Gugu Duda was fired for misconduct.<\/p>\n

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