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Scopa to grill struggling SOEs over 'grim' audit outcomes
Eskom, Transnet, the SABC all got qualified audit opinions. Even worse, disclaimers were issued for Denel and Prasa.
A new Afrikaans telenovela, 'Die Sentrum', and Tsonga series, 'Giyani', will fill the open slots left by the two iconic dramas.
The public broadcaster announced last week it was scaling back the number of episodes it airs for its iconic Afrikaans and Venda soaps.
The High Court found that he unlawfully procured payment of legal fees by the SABC, even though the legal services were incurred in his personal capacity.
The Special Investigating Unit said it approached the court to recoup the legal fees paid to Majavu Incorporated by the SABC when Motsoeneng was fighting a decision to set aside his appointment as COO.
This comes after threats of broadcast interruptions.
The union will be meeting Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni Abrams this afternoon.
Unions at the state broadcaster have ended their four-hour long blackout on Friday against the planned retrenchments.
Workers embarked on a full-blown strike over retrenchments at the public broadcaster.
Last year, the public broadcaster announced that it would retrench about 500 employees saying it wanted to save costs.
The SABC has confirmed the passing of the broadcaster.
It has warned that the public broadcaster’s restructuring plans would affect some of the country's marginalised official languages.
R2K, which has spoken strongly against the retrenchment process, said the broadcaster’s restructuring plans would affect a number of marginalised official languages.
The SABC has issued redundancy and surplus letters to just over 300 staff after the conclusion of the Section 189 consultation process.
The SABC announced on Thursday that it had concluded its retrenchment process, with at least 303 employees expected to lose their jobs.
After months of consultation, deadlocked sessions and protest action, at least 303 SABC employees face retrenchment, which is almost half of the 600 redundancies that were originally projected.
Late last year, the public broadcaster announced that it had temporarily halted the consultation process after being confronted by angry staff.
The public broadcaster has been in a deadlock with unions over the proposed retrenchment of workers since it announced its intention last year.
The public broadcaster has been deadlocked with unions over the proposed retrenchment of workers at the parastatal.