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South African Communist Party Statement, 17 December 2014 SACP welcomes long-overdue SABC board chairperson's resignation The SACP notes and welcomes the resignation of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Chairperson Ms Ellen Tshabalala. This is long overdue. It also did not have to consume public resources in the form of the processes undertaken both by Parliament and the courts as a result of Ms Tshabalala seeking to prevent the truth that she did not have the qualifications she claimed to have from being known. The resignation must lay the basis to solve the many other problems besieging the SABC, including a thorough scrutiny of and focus on the decisions taken when Ms Tshabalala was busy wasting time by refusing to step down. It is important to rescue the credibility of the public broadcaster by dealing with all well-known outstanding issues and decisions which emit a distinctly unpleasant odour. The SABC has been facing persistent problems for a long time now. This includes serious setbacks in fulfilling its legal and other mandates as well as chronic governance and management issues. The SACP reiterates its strategic perspective that: "There has to be a paradigm shift on the understanding of public service broadcasting against the mindset informed by market forces. Public service broadcasting must be protected against the interests of private corporate culture, market domination and commercial interests" including tenderpreneurs. Issued by the SACP Contact: Alex Mashilo - National Spokesperson Mobile: 082 9200 308 Office: 011 339 3621/2 Twitter: @2SACP Website: www.sacp.org.za <http://www.sacp.org.za/> -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
