Parliament is unable to hold anyone accountable for the running of the SABC as it has no board and its CEO Madoda Mxakwe has not been designated as its accounting authority in terms of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
The startling revelation emerged on Wednesday during a meeting with several leaders of the SABC. It was led by deputy communications minister Philly Mapulane and attended by members of the standing committee on public accounts .
Mxakwe, at the Soccer World Cup in Qatar negotiating broadcasting rights, designated SABC CFO Yolande van Biljon to lead the public broadcaster’s delegation Hlengwa lashed the SSA for its tardiness, and he and ANC MP Bheki Hadebe said it was problematic that all parties — the SABC and the communications and finance ministries — had failed to appoint an interim accounting authority in the absence of a board.
“Even if for a day, the fact that you’ve laboured from October, when the board’s term expired, to go this long without an accounting authority speaks to the lapses at the SABC.Hadebe weighed in: “The management coming here should have known they don’t have the required designation to speak as an accounting authority.
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