PARLIAMENT'S communications portfolio committee has nominated another two ANC members for a vacant spot on the SABC board.
The committee agreed yesterday to short list six names for the vacancy, including ANC members Lionel Adendorf and Thami ka Plaatjie.
Ka Plaatjie was general secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress until November 2008, when he split with some PAC members to form the Pan Africanist Movement. But last year he quit as president of that party and joined the ANC.
Also known as an intellectual, Ka Plaatjie was one of the authors of the Dinokeng Scenarios, which mapped out three possible futures which South Africa could arrive at by 2020.
Adendorf is the managing director of Ghoema Media, and until 2009 was the ANC's media officer in the Western Cape legislature.
He has also been nominated for a position on the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency, and will be interviewed by the committee for that post today, and by the same committee for the SABC board tomorrow.
The DA complained earlier this year about the number of ANC members or alleged sympathisers on the board, after the agency's chief Lumko Mtimde - who supports the ANC's proposed media appeals tribunal - was appointed to the board along with Cawekazi Mahlati, who is reportedly an ANC member.
The other four candidates in the running for the vacant post are engineering and broadcasting consultant Kenneth Herold and University of KwaZulu-Natal's Sadhasivan Perumal, who have both applied for the positions unsuccessfully before.
Nthabiseng Sambo and Briton Denis Lillie are the final two who will be interviewed tomorrow.
Sambo worked at the SABC in marketing between 1999 and 2004, while Lillie, chief executive officer of the Cape Film Commission, is favoured by the South African Screen Federation, which on Monday called for the resignation of SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane.
If he is appointed he is likely to be welcomed by the rest of the board, which has never seen eye-to-eye with Ngubane.
Last year, Ngubane and the rest of the board even tabled two separate progress reports to the communications committee, resulting in the committee barring the media, allegedly to save the SABC from the embarrassment.
The South African National Editors Forum then brought an urgent court application forcing Parliament to open the meeting to the media.
Eleven board members had complained in writing to then communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda about Ngubane, but Ngubane accused other board members of being power hungry.
Two ANC members vie for SABC posts
PARLIAMENT'S communications portfolio committee has nominated another two ANC members for a vacant spot on the SABC board.
The committee agreed yesterday to short list six names for the vacancy, including ANC members Lionel Adendorf and Thami ka Plaatjie.
Ka Plaatjie was general secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress until November 2008, when he split with some PAC members to form the Pan Africanist Movement. But last year he quit as president of that party and joined the ANC.
Also known as an intellectual, Ka Plaatjie was one of the authors of the Dinokeng Scenarios, which mapped out three possible futures which South Africa could arrive at by 2020.
Adendorf is the managing director of Ghoema Media, and until 2009 was the ANC's media officer in the Western Cape legislature.
He has also been nominated for a position on the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency, and will be interviewed by the committee for that post today, and by the same committee for the SABC board tomorrow.
The DA complained earlier this year about the number of ANC members or alleged sympathisers on the board, after the agency's chief Lumko Mtimde - who supports the ANC's proposed media appeals tribunal - was appointed to the board along with Cawekazi Mahlati, who is reportedly an ANC member.
The other four candidates in the running for the vacant post are engineering and broadcasting consultant Kenneth Herold and University of KwaZulu-Natal's Sadhasivan Perumal, who have both applied for the positions unsuccessfully before.
Nthabiseng Sambo and Briton Denis Lillie are the final two who will be interviewed tomorrow.
Sambo worked at the SABC in marketing between 1999 and 2004, while Lillie, chief executive officer of the Cape Film Commission, is favoured by the South African Screen Federation, which on Monday called for the resignation of SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane.
If he is appointed he is likely to be welcomed by the rest of the board, which has never seen eye-to-eye with Ngubane.
Last year, Ngubane and the rest of the board even tabled two separate progress reports to the communications committee, resulting in the committee barring the media, allegedly to save the SABC from the embarrassment.
The South African National Editors Forum then brought an urgent court application forcing Parliament to open the meeting to the media.
Eleven board members had complained in writing to then communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda about Ngubane, but Ngubane accused other board members of being power hungry.
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