{"id":9236,"date":"2009-08-18T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-18T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T22:25:00","slug":"cosatu-slams-sabc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/9236-cosatu-slams-sabc.html","title":{"rendered":"Cosatu slams SABC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such expenditure was “highly regrettable” at a time when the SABC expected to lose R1 billion in the 2008\/2009 financial year, the trade union federation said in a statement.<\/p>\n

It also named the former SABC board, chaired by Khanyi Mkonza as the culprit. The board had been “illegitimately appointed and was guilty of gross mismanagement”.<\/p>\n

Mpofu would be paid R6,738,160, plus an additional R900,055 which was legally due to him.<\/p>\n

This was in addition to the R2.1 m legal fees incurred by the corporation.<\/p>\n

Mpofu could not be blamed for exercising his rights under the Constitution and the labour laws.<\/p>\n

The present interim board should be commended for resolving a difficult situation “which was none of their own making”.<\/p>\n

Cosatu said it intended campaigning for the appointment of a new permanent board which would be “truly representative”, able to reverse financial losses and forge ahead with creating a public broadcaster which genuinely spoke for the country’s people.<\/p>\n

SABC & Mpofu’s R 11million<\/strong><\/a> – give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blame for costly legal proceedings and the settlement paid to former CEO Dali Mpofu must firmly be placed on the shoulders of the former SABC board, Cosatu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}