The committee drafted a shortlist of 24 candidates last week, from an initial pool of over 300
The SABC has clarified that the retrenchment talks with unions and the CCMA have been put on ice for now until the board has been sorted out
In recent weeks, four board members resigned – Mathatha Tsedu, Krish Naidoo, deputy chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama and John Mattison
The ANC has rejected insinuations that it was involved in attempts to sabotage the SABC board
Are certain board members being pushed out to ensure government control?
Krish Naidoo, Khanyisile Kweyama, John Mattison and Mathatha Tsedu have resigned
The broadcaster’s savings from cost-cutting are far less than the money needed to rescue it
Board chair Bongumusa Makhathini told Scopa the state broadcaster needs a R3-billion government guarantee to avoid looming collapse in March
An SABC board member told Parliament that by February, the public broadcaster would not be able to pay full salaries
EFF and Congress of the People MPs were not present at the meeting on Wednesday.
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/ 7 December 2010
The widow of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, the son of former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu, was found guilty of her husband’s murder on Tuesday.
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/ 2 December 2010
An expert found that former <em>City Press</em> editor Mathatha Tsedu’s son, Avhatakali Netshisaulu, was burnt alive in his car.
Court hears about the hysterical screams of Avhatali Netshisaulu’s widow when her husband was inside the boot of his burning car.
The trial of three people accused of murdering Avhatakali Netshisaulu, son of City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu, has been postponed to Tuesday.
City Press has successfully appealed against a press ombudsman finding over the accuracy and fairness of a report on African National Congress president Jacob Zuma, the Press Council Appeals Panel said on Friday. The article, headlined ”Cracks in Zuma’s NEC”, reported that Zuma became angry at a national executive committee [NEC] meeting on January 8.
The saga of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi has won the Mail & Guardian‘s investigations team the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for story of the year, it was announced on Wednesday evening at the seventh annual awards ceremony held at the Wanderers club in Johannesburg.
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/ 3 February 2008
South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande has accused City Press newspaper of adopting an ”extremely hostile attitude” towards African National Congress president Jacob Zuma. Nzimande tears into the paper in an open letter published on Sunday for ”deliberately” writing about the party in a ”provocatively factionalist, divisive and highly subjective manner”.
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/ 28 January 2008
The trial of three people accused of the murder of Avhatakali Netshisaulu, son of City Press editor Mathatha Tsedu, was postponed to July 28 at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. Initially six people faced charges of murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances, kidnapping and malicious damage to property.
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/ 26 September 2007
The controversial documentary <i>Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki</i> will be screened on SABC3 next Wednesday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said. "We’ve got the tape, the final copy, and it will be shown on October 3 at 9.30pm," said spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago.