{"id":147009,"date":"2015-11-22T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=147009"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T08:21:39","slug":"sabc-purges-senior-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/147009-sabc-purges-senior-managers.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC purges senior managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All senior managers in the procurement division of the SABC have been served with letters of intention to suspend them, according to a report in the City Press.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the imminent suspensions is linked to the broadcaster&#8217;s procurement of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/143630-motsoeneng-blows-another-r40-million-at-the-sabc.html\">R42.3-million studio<\/a><\/strong> for the recent Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that the managers are being targeted after they refused to sign off on a number of payments due to &#8220;procedural irregularities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The SABC did not respond to questions from the City Press.<\/p>\n<p>News of the managerial suspensions follows SABC group <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/146665-sabc-ceo-suspended-after-four-months-on-the-job.html\">CEO Frans Matlala&#8217;s suspension<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after being on the job for 4 months.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full report is available in the City Press &#8211; 22 November 2015 edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/146931-suspended-ceo-ready-to-take-sabc-to-high-court.html\">Suspended CEO ready to take SABC to high court<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/146693-why-did-you-suspend-the-sabc-ceo-so-quickly-faith-muthambi.html\">Why did you suspend the SABC CEO so quickly, Faith Muthambi?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All senior managers in the procurement division of the SABC have been served with letters of intention to suspend them, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":126902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,361],"class_list":["post-147009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147011,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009\/revisions\/147011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}