Parliament's SABC ad hoc committee 'bad for blacks'

Hlaudi Motsoeneng File photo: Tiro Ramatlhatse/Independent Media

Hlaudi Motsoeneng File photo: Tiro Ramatlhatse/Independent Media

Published Mar 11, 2017

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Durban - Parliament's ad hoc committee investigating

maladministration at the SABC is an example of black people wanting to reverse

the empowerment of other blacks, axed SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng said on

Friday.

“These people are saying they represent ordinary black

citizens of the country. They come with their own ad hoc committee and put in

an ad hoc committee to investigate SABC," he told an African National

Congress Youth League eThekwini region "economic freedom" lecture on

Friday night.

“Now, you are black, you want to reverse empowerment of

black people. I am not afraid of these people who are making noise. And

actually if you look, why did [the ad hoc committee] not call Hlaudi to come

[answer questions]? From day one it was Hlaudi until the end. But they refused

to call Hlaudi,” he said.

Motsoeneng is a regular speaker at events of the

provincial youth league and its branches and is a crowd favourite. His address

was met with whoops and cheers from the audience. He told the crowd that

Members of Parliament needed to "operate within the Constitution".

If he had killed someone he would be allowed to defend

himself. “In this case I did not kill anyone. I empowered black people. But you

know why they did not call me? They did not call me because they knew that when

I took that stand people of South Africa they are going to believe in me

because they believe in me. And actually the majority of South Africans support

what we have been doing at the SABC,” said Motsoeneng.

He had implemented policy that brought about

transformation and brought about empowerment, unlike other leaders who did not

realise that a policy was not delivery.

“In South Africa we have so many policies but we have the

wrong people implementing them,” he said.

Motsoeneng was one of the key reasons a parliamentary

inquiry into the SABC board was instituted. Parliament on Tuesday adopted the

committee's report.

Among other things, the report referred Communications

Minister Faith Muthambi to Parliament’s ethics committee to probe her

involvement in the amendment of the board’s memorandum of incorporation as well

as her role in the controversial appointment of Motsoeneng as SABC COO in 2014.

The report also asked President Jacob Zuma to reconsider

Muthambi's appointment as minister. Muthambi has indicated she will take the

findings on judicial review.

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