South african broadcasting corporation
SABC picket: Cull top management, not the workers
Irate workers have been picketing at the public broadcaster’s Auckland Park studios against planned Section 189 job cuts.
SABC employees addressed their management in a meeting after news broke that 400 employees would be retrenched. An emotional Chriselda Lewis, SABC journalist and news anchor, made an appeal against the retrenchments.
The public broadcaster has in the past struggled to generate revenue and was in constant need of bailouts.
Former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle's funeral was testament to the tragic result of factions within the ruling party, writes Omry Makgoale.
The public broadcaster says it has been in contact with state security over some confidentiality breaches, but it dismissed a report in the Sunday Times on Sunday that claims it wants to spy on staff.
The tournament will run from 8 November, when the defending champions Jozi Stars take on Cape Town Blitz, until the grand final scheduled for 16 December 2019.
An SIU report found irregularities in the awarding to a R185 million tender to the Mafoko Security company.
Acting COO Dr Craig van Rooyen resigned on Monday just four months after he was appointed. He cited personal reasons for his sudden exit.
Acting COO Dr Craig van Rooyen resigned on Monday just four months after he was appointed. He cited personal reasons for his sudden exit.
The former minister issued a statement on Tuesday criticising the press ombudsman Dr Joe Thloloe and lawyer Steven Tawana who led the inquiry.
The SABC was in the process of taking to court over 30 of its employees found to have been irregularly appointed, with the number expected to rise following the release of the inquiry’s report.
A commission chaired by veteran journalist Joe Thloloe was established in May last year to look into alleged personal favours in the newsroom and within the organisation.
The Communications Department was working with National Treasury to see whether the public broadcaster, which was facing major financial woes, could be granted a bailout.
The public broadcaster's finances have been in dire straits and the SABC is desperate for a bailout.
SABC staffers have been threatened with retrenchments as the organisation tries to avert a disaster in the face of a budget deficit amounting to billions of rand.
The broadcaster’s chief audit executive Thami Zikode was shot at by four people outside his home on Friday night.
Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams says she doesn't know how much money the SABC will get but made it clear that it wouldn't be the R6.8 billion it has asked for.
Parliament’s communications committee started the process on Tuesday.
Journalists from the South African National Corporation (SABC) and other media houses were among those blocked from reporting on the incident.