Cracks emerge at new SABC board
Kalidass quits over the process to appoint CEO
Drama continued at SABC as the newly appointed nonexecutive leadership yesterday labelled a director who resigned as “rogue and irresponsible”.
This after Rachel Kalidass stepped down with immediate effect after she raised concerns outside the SABC board about one of the three candidates shortlisted for the vacant CEO position. She registered concerns about the candidate of having pending allegations of fraud and corruption, and a strong conflict of interest.
Kalidass said that approached ANC MP Mondli Gungubele with her concerns on November 4 and that two days later was taken to task by board members who accused she her of breaching confidentiality.
The chairman of the SABC, Bongumusa Makhathini, said Kalidass had raised the concerns to the board but failed to address them with the candidate in question. “All 11 [board members] met on October 31 to interview candidates for top positions. This was an opportunity for all board members to question the candidates and raise their own concerns. “Others with reservations raised them, but Ms Kalidass remained silent,” Makhathini said.
He said his board will not be put under pressure to do wrong things, and will do a proper job in filling the vacancies of CEO and chief operating officer. “… We're not going to allow rogue kinds of people who will get out of the board and go out there because they couldn’t express their views in a structured and conventional manner,” he added. – Additional reporting by Bianca Capazorio