{"id":185152,"date":"2016-10-30T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185152"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:02:19","slug":"how-to-fix-the-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/185152-how-to-fix-the-sabc.html","title":{"rendered":"How to fix the SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183514-sabc-board-inquiry-postponed-to-later-this-year.html\"><strong>parliamentary inquiry<\/strong><\/a> into the SABC is set to assess how the broadcaster&#8217;s board failed to make\u00a0legally-binding decisions, its financial sustainability, and the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as COO and an executive.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Sunday Times, the parliamentary committee &#8211; set to hold the inquiry at the start of November &#8211; will submit its recommendations on the SABC to the National Assembly\u00a0and President Jacob Zuma by the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that sources have revealed that an interim board will be appointed, which will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set aside Motsoeneng&#8217;s appointment.<\/li>\n<li>Cancel the SABC&#8217;s contract with MultiChoice that gave it a 24-hour SABC news channel and access to SABC archives.<\/li>\n<li>Cancel\u00a0Motsoeneng&#8217;s 90% local content policy.<\/li>\n<li>Suspend acting CEO James Aguma.<\/li>\n<li>Review all senior appointments for the past five years.<\/li>\n<li>Review the SABC&#8217;s implementation of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela&#8217;s findings.<\/li>\n<li>Review irregular salary increases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Motsoeneng&#8217;s appointment as COO was\u00a0the focus on an investigation by\u00a0Madonsela, and was subsequently set aside multiple times by local courts.<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng was then\u00a0made a &#8220;corporate affairs executive&#8221;, but not before he had implemented 90% local content quotas on the SABC&#8217;s TV channels and radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>The former COO was also instrumental in negotiating the content deal with MultiChoice &#8211; which experts said saw the SABC being &#8220;ripped off&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The R570-million, five-year deal with\u00a0MultiChoice reportedly saw R2 billion in potential revenue lost by the SABC.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full report is in the Sunday Times of 30 October 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/183190-sabc-8-take-parliament-to-court-over-sabc-decisions.html\">SABC 8 take Parliament to court over SABC decisions<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary inquiry into the SABC is set to assess how the broadcaster&#8217;s board failed to make legally-binding decisions, its financial sustainability, and the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as COO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":105457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18668],"tags":[25145,35,8489,361],"class_list":["post-185152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-government","tag-faith-muthambi","tag-headline","tag-hlaudi-motsoeneng","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185152"}],"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=185152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185154,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185152\/revisions\/185154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}