The Interim Board has, since taking office, focused on stabilizing the SABC with its first priorities being, the stabilization of the leadership of the SABC, finalizing its corporate plan and implementing the recommendations of the Auditor General's forensic audit. The SABC has written to me requesting a further one month extension to submit its annual report. This is due to the fact that the guarantee application by the SABC took longer than anticipated and that, the National Treasury postponed a Government Guarantee Committee meeting scheduled for 22 October 2009 due to the recent tabling of the Adjustment Estimate of Expenditure in Parliament.