The Western Cape High Court found that Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment is “illegal and irrational” and that he is not entitled to hold any position at the SABC.
In the meantime, the parliament’s ad hoc committee is still working on their investigation of matters within the SABC and the board’s suitability to retain their jobs.
Mbulaheni Maguvhe, the SABC chairperson, will now apparently be summoned to appear before the committee after he walked out of the first proceedings and did not show up again.
Lukhanyo Calata, the parliamentary TV reporter of the SABC and member of the so-called SABC 8, testified before the ad hoc committee that parliamentary journalists from the SABC has been instructed to censor opposition voices and not be critical of President Jacob Zuma.
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