Fin24 reports that the chairperson of the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has indicated that there was a fightback against the public broadcaster’s new leadership, who were working to clean up the maladministration and corruption they had inherited.  

The SABC is in a dire financial position and the broadcaster’s executives on Tuesday briefed Parliament's oversight committee on communications on the status of the organisation’s turnaround strategy.  Board chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini told the committee that executives were under threat and their lives were at risk because of their efforts to root out corruption.  He noted a failed assassination attempt on the corporation's chief audit executive, Thami Zikode, in June, adding that a security risk assessment had found that executives at the forefront of the corporation's renewal efforts were at risk of losing their lives.  "There have been a lot of attacks, especially on executives we attracted to come and assist us.  They are being attacked for driving renewal.  They are holding people to account, based on what has happened in the past," Makhathini stated.  He also said the corporation's leadership would not be deterred:  "There is no amount of intimidation or push-back to stop us from doing what is responsible and what is in the best interest of the SABC."

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lameez Omarjee at Fin24

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