A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry into the fitness of the SABC board to hold office will start next week, the legislature's portfolio committee on communications says.
In a statement, the committee said the inquiry would be conducted in terms of section 15A of the Broadcasting Act, which empowers MPs to dissolve a board following due inquiry.
“The committee has agreed unanimously among the various parties that there are serious challenges with the current board and that intervention is needed," the statement read.
"It further believes the challenges have been exacerbated by the resignations of two non-executive members of the board during a committee meeting last week.
"Through the office of its chairperson, Humphrey Maxegwana, the committee is now writing to the remaining members of the board, those who resigned and others who might provide critical information to inform them of the forthcoming inquiry.”
At a meeting of the committee last week, it resolved to ask the board members to resign, failing which an inquiry would be conducted.
The committee's resolution came after board chairperson Obert Maguvhe and acting group chief executive James Aguma defended their decision to appoint the ever- controversial Hlaudi Motsoeneng to the senior post of chief executive for corporate affairs.
A day after the committee resolution, Maguvhe held a media conference in Johannesburg where he accused MPs of trying to bully him and fellow board members to resign, insisting he will not be quitting his post.