{"id":551963,"date":"2007-04-07T00:34:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T00:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551963-top-tech-exec-quits.html"},"modified":"2007-04-07T00:34:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T00:34:40","slug":"top-tech-exec-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551963-top-tech-exec-quits.html","title":{"rendered":"Top tech exec quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">She cites frustration with bureaucratic management for her decision to quit. \u201cI was becoming impatient at the pace at which things were happening,\u201d she says. The broadcaster had introduced \u201ctoo many processes\u201d which were impeding the implementation of its technology strategy. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cI am not prepared to comment at this stage on anything to do with this,\u201d is all SABC CE Dali Mpofu would tell the FM this week. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Rapeti has been responsible for putting together a detailed technology strategy for the SABC, dealing with, among other things, the digitisation of SA\u2019s broadcasting infrastructure. She has played a key role in helping make sure that SA is ready, technologically, to host the World Cup. The SABC is Fifa\u2019s host broadcaster for the event. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">She was responsible for driving a number of large technology projects for the corporation. She also oversaw the SABC\u2019s recent purchase of the country\u2019s first high-definition television (HDTV) outdoor broadcasting facility from Sony. Fifa requires the SABC to provide facilities that allow participating broadcasters to output HDTV. A second HDTV unit is being assembled. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Rapeti has already received a number of job offers but says her priority is to complete a master\u2019s degree in electronics engineering at Wits. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=71526\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top SABC executive, who was seen as key to the public broadcaster\u2019s technical preparations for the 2010 World Cup, has quit. SABC technology MD Sharoda Rapeti resigned last Thursday with immediate effect after nearly 20 years at the corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551963"}],"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=551963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}