Madam Deputy Speaker, the matter that we are dealing with is the process that the portfolio committee usually engages with every after four years of the SABC Board term of office. What has happened is that the Portfolio Committee on Communications issued out an advertisement to invite people to apply to become members of the Board of the SABC. Everybody applied and the criteria was quite clear: You must be a South African; have no criminal record; possess particular qualifications, skills or expertise on which then all those who qualify had applied and sent their application forms that we short-listed.
Out of the shortlist that we did, Madam Deputy Speaker, we then short- listed the 12th we had submitted. Once we had done that the important thing was not even about the warm bodies that were there but actually what were the challenges facing the SABC. It is quite clear that the public broadcaster has got only three main mandates, namely to educate, inform and to entertain. It is those mandates that inform how we constitute the team that we want to lead us. But fundamental to that I would have to respond to ... [Interjections.]