{"id":8950,"date":"2009-07-27T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-17T14:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T12:52:56","slug":"nyanda-s-sabc-fix-it-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/8950-nyanda-s-sabc-fix-it-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Nyanda\u2019s SABC fix-it team"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Times has seen the team\u2019s terms of reference, which include advising on a funding model for the broadcaster\u2019s commercial and public broadcasting services.<\/p>\n

The SABC had asked the government for R2-billion.<\/p>\n

Led by corporate governance lawyer Themba Langa, the 12- member team includes experts in corporate governance, financial and technology management, and human resources.<\/p>\n

The spokesman for trade union federation Cosatu, Patrick Craven, is a member of the team .<\/p>\n

Sources close to the team told The Times that its members met the newly appointed SABC board and the corporation\u2019s management on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The wide-ranging brief of the team includes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Determining the type and timing of government assistance necessary for the public broadcaster in the immediate and long terms;<\/li>\n
  2. Reviewing the SABC\u2019s organisation to determine its human resource requirements, and making recommendations about employing appropriately experienced and skilled individuals at the executive and management levels; and<\/li>\n
  3. Advising Nyanda on other strategies required to ensure that the public broadcaster achieves its constitutional mandate of independence in a sustainable way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The team is to report back before the end of October.<\/p>\n

    According to its terms of reference, the SABC will have to provide all information requested by the team.<\/p>\n

    This comes shortly after President Jacob Zuma appointed an interim board for the SABC after the collapse of the board appointed by former president Thabo Mbeki.<\/p>\n

    Fixing the SABC<\/a><\/strong> – how should it be done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Communications Minister has appointed a team to draw up a strategy for turning around the crisis-ridden SABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3267,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950"}],"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\/3267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}