Former SABC board chair Dr Ben Ngubane on Monday told the chairperson of the commission of inquiry into state capture that the Guptas’ The New Age was not given preferential treatment when a contract was signed to broadcast TNA Business Breakfast shows.
Ngubane added that “it wasn’t really a case of preferring” the Guptas’ TNA and that the shows helped with improving advertising sales, “so these programmes were, therefore, adding value”.He told the commission that he had attended a number of the shows where he met TNA staff and members of the Gupta family and that on a few occasions he attended social events hosted by the Guptas.
This led to the broadcaster obtaining a government guarantee of R1.64 billion in 2010 for a five-year term.“We found a dysfunctional organisation,” he added, where there was widespread malpractice at management level as well as widespread corruption in the buying and procurement of international films.
Other austerity measures that were implemented included the elimination of the SABC’s international bureau, budgets being cut and the use of petrol cards being changed “because they were absolutely abused”.
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