The report into the SABC and the Acting Chief Operations Officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, saw some surprise reactions from people supporting Mr Motsoeneng.  The Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, found that he had been irregularly appointed and that he is also paid in excess of a capped salary allowance.  In one year alone his salary has increased three times from a total of R1,5 million to R2,4 million, which was exceptional considering that he had no academic qualifications.  

Luckily for him, the former SABC’s board chairperson, Dr Ben Ngubane, when advertising for the position, removed the academic qualifications that had been previously advertised so as to ensure that Mr Motsoeneng would be able to get the job.  The academic qualifications were important because the man who was the Chief Operations Officer of the SABC never passed Matric.  By his own admission, he stated in his application form to the SABC that he had passed Matric and he filled in made up symbols – so he got the job in the first place improperly and got promoted in 2013 to a post of executive producer also on an improper basis.  He apparently purged the SABC of numerous staff with whom he had disputes.  The Communications Workers Union has however said that the report of Thuli Madonsela is the views of the DA and that she is simply speaking on behalf of Helen Zille and the white minority!  In rejecting the report, which exposed all of this, they say, “We violently reject the report” and that Thuli Madonsela is a “foot soldier of the white minority”.  It is quite sad that institutions are allowed to be rubbished like this, simply because people have agendas when the Public Protector was set up to do exactly that – to protect us all.  The website of the Public Protector is www.pprotect.org.