Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who has been blamed in part for the collapse of the broadcaster, has lashed out at his detractors, saying despite not having a matric certificate, he was the"main man" at the organisation and that he was, in his own view, very educated.
His testimony follows that of some of the SABC8, who were fired for speaking out against censorship at theAt the inquiry, Krivani Pillay and Foeta Krige accused Motsoeneng, a key ally of former president Jacob Zuma, of interfering in the functioning of the SABC newsroom for political interests, ruling the broadcaster by decree, protecting Zuma and the governing ANC from criticism, and ruthlessly dealing with those who stood in his way.
Motsoeneng said that the day after he received a letter from the SABC employing him permanently, he went to human resources clerk Marie Swanepoel, who asked him to fill out a form. “It is an insult for people to say I have lied about [having a] matric. It's a very serious issue to me, chairperson, it doesn't go well with me when the media and others portray me as a liar, including the [former] public protector,” Motsoeneng charged.
Motsoeneng trained his guns at Madonsela, saying on Tuesday: “I don't know what was happening in her mind, with due respect, chairperson. She pushed, she said to me: Hlaudi, looking back, do you think you were supposed to write Standard 10?' I never lied chairperson, God knows. I never lied.”introduce a 90% local music content quota across SABC radio stations,
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