The SABC board chair was scheduled to appear in Parliament on Thursday to be interviewed by the ad hoc committee looking into the board’s fitness.
Nematandani was banned in connection with a match-fixing scandal involving Bafana Bafana in 2010.
Deputy Police Minister Maggie Sotyu said at a public meeting in Belhar that ‘it had nothing to do with that’.
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Ronnie Lubisi testified that Muthambi, at her first meeting with the board, urged them to appoint Motsoeneng permanently.
The magistrate said the incident was clearly racially motivated, but told the two accused they could appeal his decision.
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