{"id":195134,"date":"2017-01-19T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=195134"},"modified":"2017-01-19T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T07:11:30","slug":"sabc-inquiry-mps-to-begin-drafting-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/195134-sabc-inquiry-mps-to-begin-drafting-report.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC inquiry MPs to begin drafting report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ad hoc committee looking into the fitness of the SABC board will begin deliberations on its draft parliamentary report on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Deliberations are set down from 10:00 to 17:00 in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The ad hoc committee&#8217;s working document, which highlights some of the preliminary findings from the nine days of witness testimonies in December and January, was leaked on social media on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It contains recommendations of forensic probes into allegations made by several witnesses, including those about deals involving the SABC, MultiChoice and the Gupta-owned The New Age.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairperson Vincent Smith on Wednesday expressed his &#8220;dismay&#8221; that the working document was leaked, but said this would not stop the committee from finishing its work on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the document was only meant to aid MPs during their deliberations, and has no legal standing until finalised by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will send their draft report to all affected parties, including the remaining acting SABC group executives, for comment and rebuttal by January 28.<\/p>\n<p>A final report is due to be presented before the National Assembly on February 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/sabc-inquiry-mps-to-begin-drafting-report-20170119\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/195050-how-the-sabc-board-failed-the-public-broadcaster.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How the SABC board failed the public broadcaster<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ad hoc committee looking into the fitness of the SABC board will begin deliberations on its draft parliamentary report on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341004,"featured_media":173656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[18706,361],"class_list":["post-195134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-parliament","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195134"}],"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\/341004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195142,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195134\/revisions\/195142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}