The controversial R553 million deal between MultiChoice and the South African Broadcasting Corporation , signed on July 3 2013 by SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, is under scrutiny at the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture.
For those who cannot afford a new digital television set, their analogue television can be converted to digital via an antenna and set-top box. The most impoverished five million households in the country will qualify for free set-top boxes; it was the fight over the control mechanism in these boxes that a former department of communications technical adviser says caused the project to remain incomplete in 2019.
He testified that the department of communications was shocked when the SABC did an about- turn and said it was not in favour of the control mechanism. Kruger said this change happened very suddenly.The deal between the SABC and MultiChoice has a long history. When negotiations first began, Pule was minister of communication, Mokhobo was the chief executive of the SABC and Ben Ngubane was the SABC chair.
Ngubane testified before the commission that the need for an SABC 24-hour news channel came from the desire to compete against eTV’s eNCA, hosted on the DStv platform.Ngubane testified that Motsoeneng was sent to India and London to see if he could find a partner for the SABC.
SABC board minutes from February 24 2012 show that it was at this meeting that Mokhobo announced that a contract between the SABC and MultiChoice had been executed, despite the fact that the board had not had sight of the contract.Ngubane testified that negotiations with MultiChoice progressed to the point where a contract was signed. But a problem emerged “when it came to how MultiChoice will pay for the SABC on their DStv bouquet,” testified Ngubane. “That broke the discussion.
“I decided to approach MultiChoice after we had failed and [said] to them, ‘Look, we still need a 24-hour news channel,’” he said. Mokhobo testified that it was Tshabalala who instructed Motsoeneng and the SABC acting chief financial officer Christian Olivier to go ahead and sign the contract with MultiChoice. She had to take emergency leave for just short of a week to care for her granddaughter who was gravely ill during that week. “While I was gone, they then decided to meet with MultiChoice and quickly conclude the contract,” she said.
Hlaudi throw SABC into the big mass, he should face the law
If found guilty then we must lock them up including all the other people .
But what is the Hawks and NPA doing about it?
The core of state capture
Many municipalities have boards about projects that remain unfinished, how does the ZondoCommission follow up on these, which needs no scientific proof. Auditor_GeneralSA reports, MPAC reports are simple pointers
Finally ... God is great !
Is it this clown again that masterminded this ?
MULTICHOICE WAS DEALING EXCESSIVLEY WITH SABC DURING THE STATE CAPTURE PERIOD & ALSO KEPT THE GUPTAS ON AIR, MULTICHOICE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY THE REGULATOR AS WELL FOR THEIR HIGH COSTS
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