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Majozi said serious reforms are required to stop the looming bloodbath at SABC, where more than 400 employees could be out of work next year after the downsizing process was halted until the end of December.
Majozi said SABC’s management structure was “very heavy.”
“Senior and middle managers make up 30% of the staff, but their salaries represent 44% of the cost of compensation. In the SABC 173 people earn more than R1m a year ”, said Majozi.
Another IFP deputy, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, who is also the chairman of the parliament’s permanent public accounts committee, said that communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, who is the political head of the SABC, should resign her position as she does not has managed to solve the problem. crisis raging in Auckland Park.
“She is unfit for her purpose and therefore must do the honorable thing and resign. She’s not doing Stella’s job, ”Hlengwa accused.
EFF’s Vuyani Pambo said broadcasting policies and regulations needed to be revised to force pay-TV provider MultiChoice to pay SABC for running its channels in its bouquets, which it now does for free.
But Pambo also pointed his guns at the ANC’s communications minister, saying they have neglected the SABC’s structural problem for years.
“The SABC as an entity is neglected. He is not under the care of a member of the cabinet. A deputy minister is not a member of the cabinet, ”said Pambo, referring to Ndabeni-Abrahams delegating the political management of the SABC to his deputy, Pinky Kekana.
“Even with the current minister, nothing is working … Therefore, SABC’s problems cannot be solved under the lack of leadership of Minister Ndabeni-Abrahams. Under the leadership of the ANC, the SABC will find no joy. In fact, in any case, for the next six months we will continue to talk about cuts. The biggest problem here is the ANC ”.
For her part, the criticized communications minister sought to turn the deputies around.
Ndabeni-Abrahams said they had not adequately supervised the operation of SABC.
“However, it is market conditions that have undergone unprecedented evolution that place SABC in the current precarious position,” he said.
“The SABC [was] also involved in the capture of the state … All of us here should take the blame because it happened under our supervision, ”said Ndabeni-Abrahams as opposition MPs booed her. “Our supervisory measures were not strict enough, but a large proportion of the problems are related to the market and require us to reshape the SABC as a public broadcaster in a multi-channel and digital environment and rebuild the public broadcaster that we want. ”Said Ndabeni-Abrahams.
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