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DA approaches High Court to have Hlaudi declared unfit for new job

The DA, has approached the Western Cape High Court to have Hlaudi Motsoeneng declared unfit to hold his new position at the SABC.

Last month, the SABC announced Motsoeneng had been appointed GE of Corporate Affairs, raising questions from the DA, ANC and parliament over whether the correct process to appoint him was followed and if he was fit for the job.

The DA said it’s approaching the court, which is the same court that ruled Motsoeneng was unfit as COO of the public broadcaster, to ask for a determination that “Motsoeneng is not a fit an proper person to hold any position at the SABC, much less at executive level given a slew of adverse judicial findings against his qualifications and conduct throughout his tenure”.

The party will also be going for the SABC Board, which will soon face a parliamentary inquiry into its fitness, “to make a determination of the suitability of the incumbent Board and proffer legal certainty on how the Board is to be dissolved and a new one appointed”.

“Mr Motsoeneng, aided and abetted by a dysfunctional SABC Board and the Minister of Communications, Faith Muthambi, has for too long gotten his way, while at the same time undermining the Public Protector, the Judiciary and the people of South Africa,” the DA’s James Selfe said in a statement.

“It is never ideal to approach our nations Judiciary on these matters but has become necessary in the face of uncooperative government agencies who refuse to give effect to their statutory obligations to operate in the public interest,” Selfe said.

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