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Cape Town – In a nonsensical and confusing rebuttal on the SABC, the broadcaster's chairperson Ellen Zandile Tshabalala went on public television on Wednesday evening to defend the shocking permanent appointment of the famously matric-less and controversial Hlaudi Motsoeneng in the position of chief operating officer (COO) at the SABC.
There has been swift and widespread condemnation and shock over the appointment of Motsoeneng, who is embroiled in multiple maladministration charges. A scathing report from Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released earlier this year stated that "Hlaudi Motsoeneng should never have been appointed at the SABC".
The position was not advertised and was suddenly given to Motsoeneng after a seven to five vote in his favour by the SABC board, after he had been acting COO for two-and-a-half years.
When the position was previously advertised in January 2012, it listed as a requirement tertiary qualifications, which Motsoeneng does not have.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng does not have a matric certificate and in a recorded interview with the public protector admitted that he lied about having one, and that he made up symbols for a certificate he knew he couldn't produce.
‘If you’re changing anything, you’re not going to make friends’
SABC News broadcast an interview on Wednesday night with Tshabalala, who said: “I believe that if you're changing anything, you're not going to make friends. If you change something for the good, you will attract negativity."
Tshabalala told SABC News that "the two other SABC positions have been advertised - CEO and CFO - and it's a different situation with Hlaudi Motsoeneng who has acted much above the term of acting position as far as it's laid down by the law".
In an interview on Wednesday night on eNCA (DStv 403), Madonsela said Motsoeneng "lied to the SABC about having a matric certificate" and "that Hlaudi Motsoeneng doesn't have those qualifications [to be COO]. One of them was a tertiary degree which he doesn't have".
Madonsela told eNCA that Tshabalala was supposed to give her office an implementation plan of what the SABC was going to do about the Motsoeneng situation.
"She was supposed to do that in 30 days. Five months down the line, I'm still waiting for just a simple plan that indicated what she is going to do."
- Fin24
There has been swift and widespread condemnation and shock over the appointment of Motsoeneng, who is embroiled in multiple maladministration charges. A scathing report from Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released earlier this year stated that "Hlaudi Motsoeneng should never have been appointed at the SABC".
The position was not advertised and was suddenly given to Motsoeneng after a seven to five vote in his favour by the SABC board, after he had been acting COO for two-and-a-half years.
When the position was previously advertised in January 2012, it listed as a requirement tertiary qualifications, which Motsoeneng does not have.
Hlaudi Motsoeneng does not have a matric certificate and in a recorded interview with the public protector admitted that he lied about having one, and that he made up symbols for a certificate he knew he couldn't produce.
‘If you’re changing anything, you’re not going to make friends’
SABC News broadcast an interview on Wednesday night with Tshabalala, who said: “I believe that if you're changing anything, you're not going to make friends. If you change something for the good, you will attract negativity."
Tshabalala told SABC News that "the two other SABC positions have been advertised - CEO and CFO - and it's a different situation with Hlaudi Motsoeneng who has acted much above the term of acting position as far as it's laid down by the law".
In an interview on Wednesday night on eNCA (DStv 403), Madonsela said Motsoeneng "lied to the SABC about having a matric certificate" and "that Hlaudi Motsoeneng doesn't have those qualifications [to be COO]. One of them was a tertiary degree which he doesn't have".
Madonsela told eNCA that Tshabalala was supposed to give her office an implementation plan of what the SABC was going to do about the Motsoeneng situation.
"She was supposed to do that in 30 days. Five months down the line, I'm still waiting for just a simple plan that indicated what she is going to do."
- Fin24
