According to Media Checking Africa (MMA), any concerns about the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) shortlisted up-and-comers should have been raised five months before the list was compiled, rather than after the president received it.

Since October 2022, the SABC has been without a board to oversee any tasks, and new arrangements have resulted in extensive postponements into the new year. A list of 15 rising stars was sent to President Cyril Ramaphosa for approval in December, but the cycle was postponed after he stated previously that he needed some clarity from Parliament.

Examine: ANC concerned about SABC board deferrals According to an NGO, Ramaphosa’s refusal to name the SABC board is illegal. The media guard dog has since taken Ramaphosa to the Established Court, to propel him to quit postponing the execution of the new board.

“We don’t completely accept that that the president needs to do anything but delegate the 12, which is the reason we have gone to the Established Court,” said MMA chief William Bird. “The president is saying that he wants some sort of lucidity from the Public Gathering and presently this is being utilized to attempt to audit that rundown of unique 12, and there is by all accounts some specific accentuation on Phatiswa Magopeni’s situation.”

Bird said that the discussion encompassing the application of Magopeni is unimportant at this stage.”There’s a contention that she’s not a fit and legitimate individual to be on the SABC board. Whether there’s any authenticity to that contention in our view [it] isn’t of any pertinence as of now.” Had they needed to raise those issues, they ought to have raised them at the suitable time when CVs were up. You know, her CV was there.”