The Democratic Alliance has no right to get involved with matters between an employer and their employee, the SABC said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The public broadcaster was responding to the DA’s James Selfe who on Thursday said the party wanted the Western Cape High Court to order a new disciplinary inquiry into the SABC’s COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng.<\/p>\n
The party wanted the SABC’s internal disciplinary inquiry, that cleared Motsoeneng of all charges, to be set aside.<\/p>\n
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said the broadcaster would defend the matter in court.<\/p>\n
“We regard this matter as an employer-employee matter. The DA doesn\u2019t have the right to get involved in the disciplinary matter between employer and employee,” he told News24.<\/p>\n
‘Stitch-up’<\/strong><\/p>\n Selfe said the inquiry “amounted to nothing more than a stitch-up to shield him from accountability which we contend is at odds with the remedial actions as ordered by the Public Protector”, he said.<\/p>\n It wanted the court to order that an independent and impartial disciplinary inquiry be re-established to look into Motsoeneng\u2019s fitness to hold office. Motsoeneng faced three charges \u2013 lying about having a matric certificate, sacking senior staff members and increasing his own salary three times in one year.<\/p>\n He was cleared in the internal disciplinary hearing, chaired by Advocate Willem Edeling.<\/p>\n News24<\/a><\/p>\n SABC ban on listener call-ins violates its own editorial policy: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nMore on the SABC<\/h3>\n