ANGER MOUNTS OVER HLAUDI …
ANGER continued to grow over SABC head of corporate affairs Hlaudi Motsoeneng after the SABC financials in Parliament yesterday showed that the board increased his salary from R3.7 million to R4.1m despite posting hundreds of millions in losses.
This excludes the R33m bonuses due to Motsoeneng after he was paid R11.4m in bonuses for selling the archives of the SABC to MultiChoice.
The anger of Motsoeneng’s reappointment reached the top of government after the Cabinet ordered him to immediately leave the SABC.
Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said the SABC Board must stop violating the law and it must fire Motsoeneng for his illegal appointment.
Yesterday the SABC posted a loss of R411m after another similar loss a year ago.
This takes the loss to almost R1 billion in a period of two years.
But Motsoeneng’s sudden increase to R4.1m makes him the highest paid executive at the SABC.
DA MP Phumzile van Damme said this increase was a slap in the face of South Africans, Parliament
not happy with the irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, said Swart.
A decision was needed to fix the SABC.
The ANC in Parliament took a tough stance against the SABC this week calling for the Board to immediately fire Motsoeneng.
But the board has remained mum as Motsoeneng was yesterday present when the SABC presented its financial results.
He refused to take the blame for the loss of R411m.
The Cabinet has also demanded answers and wants Motsoeneng fired urgently.
SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago declined to comment yesterday on the Cabinet decision for the SABC to axe Motsoeneng.
Meanwhile, the drama unfolding at the SABC is set to be discussed by the top leadership of the ANC when it meets in Pretoria this weekend.
The party will be holding its national executive committee meeting days after the SABC board controversially appointed Motsoeneng to a new senior position.
The SABC is among the stateowned enterprises which the last NEC meeting in August should be reported on by its deployees in government.
ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said the report would come from its national working committee, which should report to the NEC on the measures that have been taken to bring stability to State Owned Enterprises.