A strike is looming at the SABC as the broadcaster seeks to reverse salary increases awarded in December last year under Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
Opposition MPs on Parliament’s oversight committee have called for urgent intervention as trouble at the public broadcaster boiled over this week.
Controversy around Hlaudi Motsoeneng has become a battle of wills as the SABC board insists he was not reinstated as acting chief operations officer.
The controversy around Hlaudi Motsoeneng has escalated after he was unexpectedly reinstated as acting chief operations officer at the SABC.
It has taken malicious rumours and a ‘really ugly’ row for the public broadcaster’s acting head to get the chop.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation has released Hlaudi Motsoeneng as acting chief operating officer.
SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng supported the decision to drop a pre-recorded SABC3 interview with cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro.
The SABC says its decision to prevent journalists from participating in a debate on Metro FM was made in the interest of the public.
A discussion on Metro FM about the ANC national elective conference has been cancelled because the party was not invited to join,the SABC has said.
The man said to be Zuma’s enforcer at the SABC was never going to take the Fish & Chips Co TV ad, which satirises Zuma, with a pinch of salt.
Amid continued management turmoil at the SABC, its board has handed control of news, television, radio and sport to COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
The SABC and Safa have reached an agreement on broadcasting rights — the SABC will carry all national soccer teams’ games for three years.
SABC board chairperson has backed acting COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng, saying the board had been aware of his lack of qualifications.
He dismisses rumours that he is unhappy at not being appointed chief executive permanently.
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/ 3 February 2012
Supporters say SABC’s chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being smeared because he is rooting out corruption.
The SABC says it will take swift action once a probe into the use of leased luxury vehicles by its news teams is completed.
Executive manager for stakeholder management at SABC is known as the "conduit" because of a close relationship he claims to have with President Zuma.