Hlaudi tells Zondo Commission he 'had no powers' to fire SABC 8 | IOL News

Former SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has denied deciding to dismiss SABC employees who did not agree with his editorial decisions.Motsoeneng said he had no reason to interfere in the jobs of SABC editorial staff because they did not report to him and as such he had no powers to dismiss them.The former SABC boss was concluding his evidence for a second day at the Zondo commission on Wednesday.

He told Tebele that if people did not follow his rules than he should take action and not come to him.Motsoeneng said if there was anyone he could have taken action against it would have been Tebele and not the SABC editorial staff.He said he was not involved in all dismissals and says some people used his name while wanting fire people.Motsoeneng said it was unfair that he was slapped with a cost order regarding the dismissal of journalists when he was not the one who fired them.

"Yesterday I spoke about me lecturing at Wits Business School. It is true chairperson, I have the documents which I will produce. I was invited and it does not mean that when I say I lectured there I was employed by Wits but the media has twisted what I said in this commission. "That tweet is wrong chairperson. I have been invited more than three times at Wits Business School to lecture and there is a video to demonstrate that.

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