Controversial Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has launched an audacious bid to take command of the SABC in a move that would put the public broadcaster under direct state control‚ the Sunday Times reported.
With cabinet backing‚ Muthambi‚ who is known to be very close to President Jacob Zuma‚ has introduced legislation that would give her the sole power to appoint the SABC board.
The Broadcasting Amendment Bill‚ tabled on Friday‚ would wipe out the carefully crafted consensus reached after 1994 to turn the institution‚ once notorious as a mouthpiece of the apartheid government‚ into a public broadcaster.
In effect‚ Muthambi is pushing to turn the SABC into a state broadcaster‚ usurping the power of parliament to have a say over who sits on the board.
As matters stand‚ members of the National Assembly interview candidates for the board and recommend names to the president.
Minister in shock move to 'hijack' SABC
Controversial Communications Minister Faith Muthambi has launched an audacious bid to take command of the SABC in a move that would put the public broadcaster under direct state control‚ the Sunday Times reported.
With cabinet backing‚ Muthambi‚ who is known to be very close to President Jacob Zuma‚ has introduced legislation that would give her the sole power to appoint the SABC board.
The Broadcasting Amendment Bill‚ tabled on Friday‚ would wipe out the carefully crafted consensus reached after 1994 to turn the institution‚ once notorious as a mouthpiece of the apartheid government‚ into a public broadcaster.
In effect‚ Muthambi is pushing to turn the SABC into a state broadcaster‚ usurping the power of parliament to have a say over who sits on the board.
As matters stand‚ members of the National Assembly interview candidates for the board and recommend names to the president.
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