Nazeer Cassim SC says the question is simple: did Phathiswa Magopeni take sufficient measures to ensure such an issue would not arise?
Phathiswa Magopeni is appearing before a disciplinary hearing after a court-interdicted programme aired on her watch.executive editor Busisiwe Ntuli has sought to absolve the SABC's news department from the controversial airing of a court-interdicted report.
Magopeni has been charged with misconduct, negligence and bringing the SABC into disrepute for failing to prevent the airing of the report on October 26 despite an interdict against it a month earlier.After lengthy and messy verbal sparring between Magopeni’s lawyers and Cassim on Monday morning, where they sought to have the proceedings “collapsed”, they abandoned the move and the hearing proceeded with Ntuli’s evidence.
Further, the inquiry heard that the SABC board was divided on whether Magopeni should have been hauled over the coals in the first place. Ntuli told the inquiry that the show aired due to a system failure that could not be blamed on the news division, headed by Magopeni.
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