{"id":2221,"date":"2018-01-16T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2018-01-16T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:46:41","slug":"statement-by-the-chairperson-of-the-sabc-board-on-the-process-of-appointment-of-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/statement-by-the-chairperson-of-the-sabc-board-on-the-process-of-appointment-of-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SABC BOARD ON THE PROCESS OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/webmail.sabc.co.za\/owa\/attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAxFEHX6I2OTofG3BjbrXC9BwDXbFLBKaIgRbXl5BeE9N84AAANbkj2AACl5TlXMcNjRYAgWjYqon5VAADa6xGWAAAJ&amp;attcnt=1&amp;attid0=BAAAAAAA&amp;attcid0=image001.png%4001D38ED2.1375CD00\" width=\"152\" height=\"109\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<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 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b><u>STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SABC BOARD ON THE PROCESS OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVES<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Johannesburg, Tuesday, 16 January 2018<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Board of the SABC takes note of the pronouncements of the Minister of Communications, in her capacity as Shareholder representative of the public broadcaster, on the process of the appointment of SABC Executives, in particular the Chief Operations Officer (COO).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Board wishes to state for the record that it\u00a0has\u00a0acted and will continue to act lawfully, and in line with the letter and spirit of the Interim Court Order, on this matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">This includes the requirement of consultations with the Shareholder Representative.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The Interim court order gives clarity on the Board\u2019s responsibilities in making SABC Executive Appointments.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The recruitment of Executives (CEO, COO and CFO) is one of the SABC Board\u2019s urgent priorities, and the processes are in progress and on track.\u00a0T<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">he appointment of the successful candidate for COO is still being finalised, and the positions of CEO and CFO advertised.<\/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>\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>Issued By:\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 Group Communications on behalf of the SABC Board Chairperson Mr Bongumusa Makhathini<\/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>Media Enquiries:\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 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>082\u00a0306 8888<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA STATEMENT STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE SABC BOARD ON THE PROCESS OF APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTIVES \u00a0 Johannesburg, Tuesday, 16 January 2018&#8211;\u00a0The Board of the SABC takes note of the pronouncements of the Minister of Communications, in her capacity as Shareholder representative of the public broadcaster, on the process of the appointment of SABC [&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\/2221"}],"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=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"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=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}