June 8, 2009

[Editorial column] What ails the SABC?

By Simone Puterman in Editor's column, Marketing, Media, SABC | 0 comments

The short answer is: a great deal.

Peter Vundla, who resigned from the SABC board back in May, took the opportunity following Khanyi Mkhonza’s resignation on Thursday last week to say what he reckons is wrong with the SABC. Among the mildest things he says is his opinion that the broadcaster is like an employment agency; in his first 12 months on the board he saw staff grow by 600, with three people doing the work of one and more managers than he’d ever seen before.

People have apparently been appointed not for their experience and skills, but on the basis of their political affiliations - which explains a great deal!

Vundla has served on a number of boards and he knows what he talking about - and he reckons it’s time the SABC was treated as a national asset and not as a political tool.

Faulty Towers can be fixed, but it will demand a change in mindset on the part of government. Is the government up to it?

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This column originally published 8 June  2009.

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