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The committee drafted a shortlist of 24 candidates last week, from an initial pool of over 300. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
KHANYISILE KWEYAMA

SABC board hopefuls take the hot seat

The committee drafted a shortlist of 24 candidates last week, from an initial pool of over 300

  • Khulekani Magubane
2 min read
SABC headquarters. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BEMAWU

SABC retrenchment process still suspended, for now

The SABC has clarified that the retrenchment talks with unions and the CCMA have been put on ice for now until the board has been sorted out

  • Mashadi Kekana
2 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to write a letter to Parliament in order for the relevant committee to appoint four new board members. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
FEBE POTGIETER GQUBULE

Communications committee invites nominations to fill SABC board

In recent weeks, four board members resigned – Mathatha Tsedu, Krish Naidoo, deputy chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama and John Mattison

  • Jan Gerber
3 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to write a letter to Parliament in order for the relevant committee to appoint four new board members. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Four SABC board members resign

Krish Naidoo, Khanyisile Kweyama, John Mattison and Mathatha Tsedu have resigned

  • Gemma Ritchie
3 min read
Nzimande: “This plan provides immediate, short- and medium-term interventions, which will ensure that we wholly turn around Prasa. These interventions are operational, engineering and financial in nature.” (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BLADE NZIMANDE

Prasa ready to be ‘wholly’ turned around — Nzimande

Prasa’s board, meanwhile, says it has advanced in implementing the recommendations of the public protector, Auditor-General and treasury

  • Marelise Van Der Merwe
2 min read
insider said the SACP sought to have its chairperson, Blade Nzimande, remain a cabinet minister.
BLADE NZIMANDE

Prasa corruption perpetrators to be identified in a week or two — Blade Nzimande

Blade Nzimande says he has been briefed by Prasa’s current leadership that they would be taking action against those who are implicated in corruption

  • Khulekani Magubane
3 min read
‘It is dark but there is light at the end of the tunnel
BLADE NZIMANDE

Fedusa: Prasa board must not be distracted following hijacking of Prasa chair

Khanyisile Kweyama was pepper-sprayed and bundled into the boot of her car, before being driven around for at least three hours on Thursday evening

  • Alex Mitchley
2 min read
Rural renewal: Clanwilliam’s private solar project could be seen as a way to develop small towns and rural areas and stem migration to cities
KHANYISILE KWEYAMA

Prasa board chair hijacked, kidnapped

Prasa board chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama was pepper-sprayed, bundled into the boot of her car and driven around for at least three hours

  • Jenna Etheridge
1 min read
‘It is dark but there is light at the end of the tunnel
BLADE NZIMANDE

Prasa chair: New board members ‘won’t stick heads in sand’

After eight months, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s annual report for 2016/17 is close to being finalised

  • Lameez Omarjee
4 min read
Tundu Lissu plans to return to Tanzania to fight President John Magufuli’s ‘reign of terror’ after spending a year and a half in Kenya and Belgium recovering from a near-fatal attack. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)
COMMISSION FOR CONCILIATION

SABC can’t touch Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s pension says his lawyer

SABC interim board chair Khanyisile Kweyama told Parliament’s communications committee they would go after all of Motsoeneng’s assets to recoup funds

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
While suspended SABC official Hlaudi Motsoeneng
HLAUDI MOTSOENENG

SABC to request treasury bailout as economic woes worsen

The broadcaster’s deepening economic crisis poses a direct risk to local productions.

  • Phillip De Wet
6 min read