{"id":2193,"date":"2017-12-05T11:36:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:56:46","slug":"sabc-appoints-mr-thamsanqa-zikode-as-chief-audit-executive-and-ms-nada-wotshela-as-group-executive-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc-appoints-mr-thamsanqa-zikode-as-chief-audit-executive-and-ms-nada-wotshela-as-group-executive-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC APPOINTS MR THAMSANQA ZIKODE AS CHIEF AUDIT EXECUTIVE AND MS NADA WOTSHELA AS GROUP EXECUTIVE: RADIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>MEDIA STATEMENT<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b><u>SABC APPOINTS MR THAMSANQA ZIKODE AS CHIEF AUDIT EXECUTIVE AND MS NADA WOTSHELA AS GROUP EXECUTIVE: RADIO<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Johannesburg &#8211; Monday 04 December 2017 &#8211;<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0In line with its commitment to ensuring organisation stability, financial recovery, and sound governance, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is pleased to announce two senior appointments.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Mr. Thamsanqa Phineas Zikode (known as Thami) has been appointed as Chief Audit Executive and Ms. Nada Ndulelwa Wotshela as Group Executive: SABC Radio. They both assumed their duties on Friday the 1<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0of December 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Mr. Zikode has both Bachelor and Honours Degrees in Accounting Sciences and has been a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) since 2009. He is also a member of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA). Mr. Zikode has extensive working experience in both the private and public sectors \u2013 most recently with the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Ms. Nada Wotshela has both a BA Degree (Psychology and Sociology) and an MAP from Wits Business School. She began her radio career with Ubuntu Community Radio in Port Elizabeth in 1996 as a presenter, a producer, and a newsreader. Ms. Wotshela moved to CKI FM in 1998 and transformed it from a community station to the youth radio station launched as Tru FM in November 2007. After a stint at Umhlobo Wenene FM, Ms. Wotshela was appointed as an SABC Provincial General Manager \u2013 first in the Western Cape and thereafter in the Eastern Cape.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Ms. Nomsa Philiso, the SABC\u2019s Acting Group Chief Executive Officer (AGCEO) stated \u201cWe are delighted to welcome the two new Group Executive members.\u00a0 I am particularly thrilled that they are joining us at a point where we are still deliberating about the plans for the 18\/19 fiscal and can make an impactful contribution. I urge all staff to support them in their new roles\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en\"><b>End<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>Media Enquiries:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Kaizer Kganyago (SABC Spokesperson)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 082\u00a0306 8888<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT \u00a0 SABC APPOINTS MR THAMSANQA ZIKODE AS CHIEF AUDIT EXECUTIVE AND MS NADA WOTSHELA AS GROUP EXECUTIVE: RADIO \u00a0 Johannesburg &#8211; Monday 04 December 2017 &#8211;\u00a0In line with its commitment to ensuring organisation stability, financial recovery, and sound governance, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is pleased to announce two senior appointments. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17689,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/17689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}