Suspended South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) group chief executive Dali Mpofu was tight-lipped on Tuesday over his planned court action against its board. ”I’m not commenting on this matter until after the court [case],” he said. He had also instructed his lawyers not to comment to the media, Mpofu said.
President Thabo Mbeki must go, and he must go now, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said on Monday. ”In a constitutional democracy such as ours, it is untenable for a president with his track record to remain in office,” she said in a statement. It is ”in the interests of South Africa” that Mbeki step down as president.
No link seems to exist between the suspensions of South African Broadcasting Corporation group CEO Dali Mpofu and head of news Snuki Zikalala, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Saturday. She said the information she received indicated that the board’s reasons for suspension of Mpofu had to do with an issue of governance.
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African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma on Friday called for a closure of the ”chapter of tension and mistrust” between the ruling party and its alliance partners. The relationship between the ANC and its alliance partners had become somewhat strained under the previous leadership of national President Thabo Mbeki.
Recent developments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) are ”bizarre”, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Friday. ”The top-level disciplinary issues and staff departures are likely to have a disruptive effect on the conduct of the broadcaster’s operations,” Sanef said in a statement.
”Let me do my work and after that you can talk about Mr Santana.” So says the new Bafana Bafana coach, Joel Natalino Santana, when asked what he makes of criticisms directed at him since his appointment as coach of the senior national team. Santana is not deterred by his many detractors in South Africa who have been at his throat since his appointment.
Newly appointed acting CEO of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Gabriele Mampone said on Thursday that he would act as CEO of the corporation for the next 30-days. His appointment was announced on Wednesday to temporarily replace chief executive Dali Mpofu, who was suspended for apparently failing to implement decisions of the board.
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri expressed ”great concern” on Wednesday about the suspension of South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO Dali Mpofu and head of news Snuki Zikalala. ”All will be done on [the minister’s] part to ensure the ability of the SABC to carry out its mandate,” she said.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Group CEO Dali Mpofu has been suspended, the public broadcaster’s board announced on Wednesday. The board said the allegations levelled against Mpofu ”include an alleged refusal and/or failure to abide and implement decisions of the board”. This follows the suspension of group executive of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has suspended its group executive of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala, with immediate effect. The public broadcaster said Zikalala had been suspended by chief executive Dali Mpofu pending the outcome of a probe into allegations of misconduct.
South African Broadcasting Corporation CEO Dali Mpofu on Sunday rejected the ”insinuations” that there was a Cabinet plot against him. This followed newspaper reports that he accused Thabo Mbeki’s Cabinet of plotting to oust him. Mpofu told Parliament he had received information that someone ”from high up” had given instructions that he be fired.
Disk jockey Heinrich Van Rooyen was found guilty of double murder in the Circuit High Court in Knysna in the Southern Cape, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Friday. The 25-year-old van Rooyen murdered 19-year-old Jessica Wheeler and 20-year-old Victoria Stadler three years ago.
Teazers boss Emmanuel ”Lolly” Jackson and his manager appeared in court on Tuesday on charges of fraud and contravening immigration law, Johannesburg police said. Media reports said that 11 exotic dancers from Russia and the Ukraine were also being questioned.
Teazer’s boss Lolly Jackson has reportedly been arrested again, this time for alleged fraud. He was thought to have been questioned about the alleged falsification of the visas of the eastern European strippers he employs. It was reported that 11 dancers from Russia and the Ukraine were also being questioned.
It has been a busy few weeks at the South African Rugby Union (Saru). At the end of March Saru’s AGM mandated Oregan Hoskins to remain as president for the next two years. Hoskins rebuffed a challenge for the presidency from his vice-president, Mike Stofile, and then lambasted his opponent for saying: ”There is no place for black people in South African rugby.”
An intensive investigation is under way to establish whether contaminated water in the Eastern Cape caused the death of nearly 80 children, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Thursday. Earlier this week, media reports said nearly 80 children from the towns of Barkly East, Maclear, Sterkspruit and Elliot had died from diarrhoea and other complications.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Dali Mpofu has conceded that the public broadcaster is under political pressure, but said it was resisting this pressure, Business Day reported on Thursday. ”The test is if you can withstand political pressure,” he said at a conference on media and electoral democracy held in Pretoria on Wednesday.
First National Bank’s residential property barometer has dropped to the lowest level recorded for any quarter since its inception in 2003, media reports said on Monday. Up to 83% of people selling their houses had to accept a much lower offer than their asking price.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Monday vowed to take her fight against the Erasmus commission to the Constitutional Court. The commission was set up by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool in December 2007 to investigate the City of Cape Town’s probe into controversial councillor Badih Chaaban.
President Thabo Mbeki is set to appoint African National Congress deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe to his Cabinet next month after being ordered to do so by his party, the Sunday Times reported. Motlanthe is likely to be sworn in as a member of Parliament when it opens in the first week in May.
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The case involving African National Congress president Jacob Zuma in Mauritius has been postponed, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported on Friday. The case has been postponed to May 7. Zuma’s lawyer told SABC news that the case had been postponed because the defence team wanted to study the affidavit filed by Mauritian Attorney General.
The group executive of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is ”disturbed” by inaccuracies in media reports indicating that the broadcaster’s board plans to axe its chief executive, Dali Mpofu. The Sunday Times reported that the SABC board planned to axe Mpofu for dereliction of duty.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Tuesday expressed its deep concern at media reports signalling a ”looming battle” between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board and management. ”We are deeply concerned,” SACP spokesperson Malesela Maleka said in a statement.
Police have banned political rallies and the opposition has accused the authorities of waging a violent crackdown as Zimbabwe’s political crisis deepens nearly two weeks after a presidential election that produced no official winner. Zimbabwe’s neighbours hope to find a resolution on Saturday at an emergency summit in Zambia.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) suspended group executive of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala, has lodged a case with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
Abbey Makoe, political editor at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has resigned from the public broadcaster, it said on Friday. Makoe said: ”I am very sad to leave the SABC. Of all the media institutions for which I have worked, I found the SABC the most transformed and progressive.”
A 24-year-old man who allegedly attempted to set fire to the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) offices appeared before the Newlands Magistrate’s Court in Sophiatown on Friday. ”Did you have a problem with the programming?” Judge Koos Pretorius quipped.
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa reserved judgement on Thursday in the hearing of a complaint against the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s broadcast of a ”hate song” by hip-hop artist Zubz, said the Freedom Front Plus, which had laid a complaint about the song in February.
South Africa will work with other countries in the region to ensure the will of the Zimbabwean people is reflected, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Thursday. The country has joined the chorus of international calls for Zimbabwe to release the results of its March 29 presidential election as soon as possible.
A leader of Zimbabwe’s feared war veterans, hard-line supporters of President Robert Mugabe, on Thursday denied the invasion of white-owned farms in the wake of a poll dispute. ”There are no farm invasions in Zimbabwe,” national chairperson of the War Veterans’ Association Jabulani Sibanda told South African Broadcasting Corporation radio.
The Zimbabwe opposition’s bid to build up pressure on President Robert Mugabe after disputed polls bore fruit on Wednesday as plans were unveiled for a weekend summit to discuss the crisis. The president of neighbouring Zambia said he would gather his peers for talks on Saturday, aimed at breaking the deadlock that has persisted since the March 29 polls.
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai urged the leaders of Southern Africa on Wednesday to use their influence to help prevent his country from sliding into chaos following disputed elections. MDC lawyers, meanwhile, were trying to persuade the High Court to order the immediate release of the results of the March 29 presidential election.