JOHANNESBURG, November 15 (ANA) – President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday accepted the resignation of two board members of the SABC who resigned over the weekend, leaving the chairperson Mbulaheni Maguvhe as the only non-executive member.
“President Jacob Zuma has received and accepted the resignations of Ms Vuyo Mhlakaza and Dr Aaron Tshidzumba as members of the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), with immediate effect,” The Presidency said in a statement.
“The President has thanked the two former board members for their contribution during their tenure at the SABC and wished them well in all their future endeavours.”
Mhlakaza and Tshidzumba tendered their resignations at the weekend.
This emerged as the DA filed an application in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town asking that SABC head of Corporate Affairs, Hlaudi Motsoeneng not be allowed to hold any position in the public broadcaster pending a review of the public protector’s findings against him in a 2014 report.
Last month, two other members Krish Naidoo and Vusi Mavuso tendered their resignations after distancing themselves from controversial decisions taken by the board when the board and senior executive management appeared before the parliamentary communications portfolio committee.
MPs at the meeting resolved to ask all remaining board members to resign or face a parliamentary inquiry into their fitness to hold office.
The portfolio committee asked that the board be dissolved and that an inquiry be held into the affairs of the SABC.
But Maguvhe vowed not step down from his position, regardless of an inquiry into the affairs of the SABC.
In another development ANC MP and member of Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Vincent Smith, was on Tuesday expected to be elected chairperson of the ad-hoc committee on the SABC Board Inquiry.
– African News Agency (ANA)