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Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
SABC Board Inquiry Interim Report: consideration of responses
14 Feb 2017
The Committee met to discuss the responses to the Committee’s Interim Report from the affected parties. The Committee had received written submissions from four people: SABC8, Mr Phil Molefe, Mr Dumile Mateza and Mr Sipho Masinga. The deadline for comments (submissions) into the Committee's draft report is Thursday, 16 February ...
Water and Sanitation
Internal planning session, review of Annual Report, Annual Performance Plan
1 Feb 2017
The Committee met to consider its Draft Programme schedule until March, 2017, Revised Strategic Plan and the Annual Performance Plan for 2017 programme. The Draft programme was reviewed because some programmes had been postponed, for instance, the proposed dates for the oversight visit to Lesotho Highlands Water project were 28, ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Interim Committee report: adoption
27 Jan 2017
The Committee met for the adoption of the draft report on the SABC inquiry.
Firstly, the Committee noted the intimidation and attacks that the “SABC 8” continued to be subjected to. All parties condemned this strongly and agreed that the Minister of Police and SAPS should update the Committee on ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Committee Report: further deliberations
26 Jan 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on the second version of its draft report into the SABC Inquiry. Members were asked to give their final inputs in written form to be assimilated into the report which would be sent to relevant parties for comment. Some changes made related to the introduction ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Committee Report: deliberations continued
24 Jan 2017
The Committee met to deliberate on recommendations in its first draft report on the SABC inquiry.
One of the recommendations dealt with the funding model of the SABC. Members strongly asserted that the public broadcaster remained a public funded entity even if it received only a small amount from the ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Hearings: Ngubane and Tshabalala
13 Jan 2017
After a thorough probe and engagement with former SABC Chairperson, Dr Ben Ngubane, the Chairperson concluded that someone has misled Parliament in their submission or evidence presented through affidavits, as there were gross contradictions between the statements made by Dr Ngubane and those submitted by other witnesses at an earlier ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Hearings: Rachel Kalidass
15 Dec 2016
The Committee held its last day of hearings for 2016 as part of the inquiry into the SABC Board. Ms Rachel Kalidass appeared before the Committee. Ms Kalidass was part of the Board from 2013 to 2015 as a non-executive member until she was unlawfully removed from the SABC Board. ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Hearings: Right2Know, Media Monitoring Africa, SOS Coalition, Minister of Communications
14 Dec 2016
In the morning session, the Ad Hoc Committee continued to hear evidence from various bodies around the SABC position. Participants were asked to take the oath, were reminded of their duties and the need to speak openly and truthfully, and questions were led by Senior Parliamentary Legal Advisor Adv Vanara, ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Hearings: Khumalo; Shushu; Geldenhuys; Maguvhe
13 Dec 2016
The first witness, Prof Bongani Khumalo, former SABC board member, described a number of corporate governance problems he observed at SABC and these included failure to observe the differentiation between board and executive functions and thus poor management of boundaries between the board and the executive. There were dynamics that ...
Ad Hoc Committee on SABC Board Inquiry
Hearings: Nkosi; Mabaso; Masinga; Gqubule, Pillay; Mvoko, Calata
12 Dec 2016
The Chairperson informed the Committee that on Saturday 10 December his office had received a letter from Ncube Inc attorneys headed Re: Inquiry by the Ad hoc Committee into the Affairs of the South African Broadcasting Corporation and its Board of Directors. The letter stated that the SABC Board is ...