The insistence by ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule as well as Minister of Communications, Nomvula Mokonyane, that the financially hobbled SABC hold back on job cuts is beyond satire.
"All great events and personalities in world history reappear... The first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
- Karl Marx
For around two decades the governing party, through various ministers of communications, non-existent parliamentary oversight and a board stacked with sweetheart chairs and members, aided and abetted gross mismanagement and the flouting of laws of good governance at the public broadcaster.
The workers have the ANC to blame for SABC's financial trouble and not the board.
It was the ANC who birthed and raised, at the great teat of patronage, former disgraced SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng.
King Hlaudi, Hurricane Hlaudi, or just Hloudi, the self-proclaimed intellectual who broke an already badly limping SABC, is the love child of former ministers of communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Dina Pule and Faith Muthambi along with former president Jacob Zuma and then Free State ANC chair, later premier and now ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule.
In other words, the usual suspects.
Various hand-picked board chairs too, including Motsoeneng's most vocal groupie, Ellen Tshabalala...
