{"id":170017,"date":"2016-06-28T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170017"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:55:13","slug":"sabc-appoints-new-ceo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/170017-sabc-appoints-new-ceo-2.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC appoints new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has appointed a new Group Chief Executive Officer, the public broadcaster announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Tuesday, the SABC Online revealed that James Aguma would take over from outgoing acting Group CEO Jimi Matthews, who resigned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, Matthews said his \u201cimmediate resignation\u201d is due to the fact that he can be more effective outside of the SABC than working in it.<\/p>\n<p>He said the \u201ccorrosive atmosphere\u201d has impacted negatively on his moral judgement, which made him \u201ccomplicit in many decisions\u201d he is not proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/sabc-appoints-new-acting-ceo-20160628\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/169973-sabc-board-must-go-back-to-the-drawing-board.html\">SABC board must go back to the drawing board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/169825-jacob-zuma-turning-sabc-into-a-state-broadcaster.html\">Jacob Zuma turning SABC into a state broadcaster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC has appointed a new Group Chief Executive Officer, the public broadcaster announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":92943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,361],"class_list":["post-170017","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\/170017"}],"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=170017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}