{"id":100866,"date":"2015-10-11T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=100866"},"modified":"2015-10-12T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T06:43:15","slug":"i-was-born-to-lead-sabc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/100866\/i-was-born-to-lead-sabc-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"I was born to lead: SABC boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SABC COO Hlaudi\u00a0Motsoeneng was \u201cborn to lead\u201d, and will fight a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/141434-sabc-taking-motsoeneng-suspension-judgement-to-constitutional-court.html\">Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgement<\/a><\/strong> that he\u00a0be suspended for 60 days while a disciplinary hearing into his alleged breaches of conduct is undertaken.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to a report in the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome leaders are born. Like myself, I am a born leader, so you can\u2019t take that away from me. I have been leading from a young age. From Standard 3 I was a leader, even leading my own teachers,\u201d said\u00a0Motsoeneng to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was leading them in matters I can\u2019t reveal here\u2026 even now I am still leading them.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Motsoeneng must be suspended: courts<\/h3>\n<p>Motsoeneng\u2019s statement follows the SCA recently dismissing an application by him, the SABC, and Communications Minister Faith Muthambi to set aside a ruling by the High Court that\u00a0upheld Public Protector Thuli Madonsela\u2019s finding that action be taken against the SABC COO\u00a0for receiving exorbitant salary increases and forging his matric qualification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SABC has instructed its lawyers to lodge an urgent appeal with the Constitutional Court\u201a in regards to the Judgement laid down by the Supreme Court of Appeal\u201a\u201d the broadcaster said following the SCA ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng said he has turned the SABC around from being broke to an organisation that \u201cwas thriving\u201d.\u00a0These claims <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/127922-sabc-faces-r501m-loss-decides-to-build-new-gym-for-employees.html\">have been disputed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This did not stop from\u00a0Motsoeneng from receiving a massive pay increase in the past financial year, though, which was revealed in the SABC\u2019s recent annual report.<\/p>\n<p>The report revealed that Motsoeneng\u2019s salary increased from R2,872,000 to R3,784,000, including bonuses \u2013 despite the rulings that he be suspended.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full report is available in the Sunday Times \u2013 11 October 2015 edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More government\u00a0news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/100848\/massive-drop-in-anc-membership\/\">Massive drop in ANC membership<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/100768\/motsoeneng-court-order-makes-parliaments-nkandla-reports-invalid-da\/\">Motsoeneng court order makes Parliament\u2019s Nkandla reports invalid: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng was \u201cborn to lead\u201d, and will fight an SCA judgement that he be suspended for 60 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,5396,8534],"class_list":["post-100866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-hlaudi-motsoeneng","tag-south-african-broadcasting-corporation-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100870,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866\/revisions\/100870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}