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/ 22 September 2009
The SABC board is considering taking criminal action against employees and former staff after a ”shocking” report on the broadcaster by the AG.
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/ 10 September 2009
South African NGOs have to drop their ”cap-in-hand” approach and start working like businesses, a leading social entrepreneur said on Thursday.
Soldiers who protested at the Union Buildings on Wednesday were ”disgraceful” and had placed the nation in danger, said Lindiwe Sisulu.
A Medical Research Council research initiative is still receiving government funding for clinical trials on two Aids vaccines recently launched in SA.
The SABC interim board is examining the costs of each of the beleaguered broadcaster’s departments ”line by line”, its chairperson said on Tuesday.
Axed SABC chief executive Dali Mpofu on Tuesday backed a call for a judicial inquiry into the financial affairs of the public broadcaster.
The SABC was heading for ”financial doldrums” by 2008, a former board member told Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications.
SABC board members spent Tuesday morning arguing over whether they would participate in an inquiry into the troubled public broadcaster.
The ANC is in no danger of losing its heartland — the Eastern Cape — on election Wednesday, but the party is now facing a wave of new competition.
DA leader Helen Zille took her election campaign to Dysselsdorp on Wednesday, urging the community to help her form a new majority party.