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News24 reports that according to the Sunday Times, former SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief operating officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng has responded to a civil claim lodged by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to recover R21m from him by telling the public broadcaster it owes him R16m.
He claims the money is owed to him for brokering a controversial content deal with pay-TV giant MultiChoice. Last week, head of the SIU, advocate Andy Mothibi, updated the National Assembly's oversight committee on communications and told MPs that the first recovery claim against Motsoeneng was for the R11m the SABC paid irregularly as a success fee for the controversial contracts entered into with MultiChoice. Another recovery of R10m stemmed from irregular appointments, salary hikes, suspensions and unlawful terminations of contracts while Motsoeneng was COO. But, Motsoeneng argued in his counter-claim filed in the South Gauteng High Court that his deal netted the broadcaster a R1.19bn profit and he was entitled to compensation for raising money for the SABC. He contended that the decision of the board to approve the payment of his success fee, calculated at 2.5% of the R1.19bn less R1m, was valid and binding on the SABC. He remained steadfast that the R11.5m already paid to him in the form of a bonus was only a part payment of the total owed to him.
- Read the full original of the above report at News24. Read the original report on page 4 of the Sunday Times of 22 September 2019
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