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.
The SABC has no board of directors after the mandate of the previous board expired at the end of September. File photo.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 .
The startling revelation emerged on Wednesday during a meeting with several head honchos of the SABC and led by deputy communications minister Philly Mapulane and members of the standing committee on public accounts . The meeting with the public finance body had been scheduled to discuss, among other issues, Special Investigating Unit investigations at the SABC and irregular expenditure of more than R2.9bn that dates back to 2018.
MPs from the ANC and the DA, along with Scopa chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa from the IFP, objected about the meeting going ahead when they learnt from Mapulane that Mxakwe had not yet been designated as the accounting authority of the SABC in terms of the PFMA by finance minister Enoch Godongwana. Mxakwe was not at the meeting and had designated SABC CFO Yolande van Biljon to lead the public broadcaster’s delegation because he was at the Soccer World Cup in Qatar, where he is negotiating broadcasting rights.
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