SABC chief operating officer Chris Maroleng has been found guilty on three charges following a disciplinary enquiry initiated late last year, City Press reports.<\/p>\n
Maroleng faced an enquiry into charges of gross negligence and breaching fiduciary duty, which the report stated could lead to his dismissal.<\/p>\n
The SABC also enquired into Maroleng’s alleged protection of acting SABC executive for sport Marchi Mahlalela, who resigned from the SABC following her own disciplinary hearing.<\/p>\n
Maroleng reportedly leveraged his position to try and assist Mahlalela in being hired at Saru (South African Rugby Union), even writing a letter in his official capacity at the SABC which confirmed that Mahlalela was innocent of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
The SABC did not agree with Maroleng’s assessment, stating in its own letter to Saru that the COO does not represent the broadcaster’s stance on the matter.<\/p>\n
Maroleng’s attorney stated that the disciplinary process was not yet finalised, and that Maroleng would make a submission to the SABC on the issue of sanction soon.<\/p>\n
The new SABC board members recently appointed<\/strong><\/a> by President Cyril Ramaphosa will have the job of disciplining Maroleng for his actions.<\/p>\n The report stated that Maroleng’s charges constitute a reason for dismissal, and the members of the board will need to determine whether this will be their course of action regarding the COO.<\/p>\n The SABC’s new board members include professionals with expertise across a variety of fields, including business practice, law, journalism, communication, and more.<\/p>\n SABC chief operating officer Chris Maroleng has been found guilty on three charges following a disciplinary enquiry initiated late last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":173738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[46289,58572,361],"class_list":["post-303070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-coo","tag-maroleng","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303070"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Domain Registry Lock for .ZA being explored<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"