The DA has asserted that it will not let former SABC chief executive James Aguma "off the hook" following the latter's resignation on Wednesday morning.
This was after the public broadcaster's interim board chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama announced that Aguma, who was acting chief executive, submitted his resignation at his disciplinary hearing for damning charged he was facing.
The charges include; breach of fiduciary duties and dishonesty by attesting in an affidavit, during former chief executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng's disciplinary hearing, contradictory statements to the interim board.
"The human resource department (at the SABC) will then deal with all the necessary documentation around this matter, which will include amongst others, the issue of the 30 day notice period and other benefits," Kweyama announced.
Kweyama further said at the briefing held at the broadcaster's Joburg headquarters, that "there are now settlement discussions" between the SABC and Aguma.
However, the DA's member of Parliament Mike Waters stressed that despite Aguma's resignation, the official opposition would still legally pursue Aguma for "his part in the institutional breakdown" at the SABC.
"Aguma's convenient exit reiterates the urgent need for the Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, to table the report into those who lied during Parliament's SABC inquiry," Waters said.
"The report, compiled by Parliament's Legal Services Unit, identifies 'the persons who misled the inquiry or provided false information of false testimony with the aim of criminal charges being laid'...The DA will not allow Aguma to escape accountability for the key role he played in the SABC's demise," he promised.