Professor Malegapuru Makgoba says the death toll of mentally ill patients who were transferred from Life Esidimeni will continue to rise.
The SABC maintains that it had not yet implemented the policy to ban the airing of protest footage.
The former SABC board chairperson’s bid to halt the inquiry into the board’s fitness to hold office was dismissed with costs last moth.
MPs also discussed recommendations around the "shareholder" of the SABC, which is currently Minister Muthambi.
In August 2015, the SSA was accused of conducting a ‘secret operation’ at the SABC’s Durban offices.
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.
Ronnie Lubisi testified that Muthambi, at her first meeting with the board, urged them to appoint Motsoeneng permanently.
On May 26, the broadcaster banned the airing of footage of violent protests on its television stations.
The ANC chief whip blasted the broadcaster’s chairperson for the ‘utter disrespect he continues to demonstrate against Parliament’.
The Democratic Alliance will go to court to oppose the interdict against members of Parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the SABC board