{"id":137889,"date":"2016-09-23T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=137889"},"modified":"2016-09-23T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T10:59:20","slug":"pay-your-tv-licence-motsoeneng-to-mourners-at-mandozas-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/137889\/pay-your-tv-licence-motsoeneng-to-mourners-at-mandozas-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pay your TV licence&#8217;: Motsoeneng to mourners at Mandoza&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On and off again SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng took to the stage at Mandoza&#8217;s funeral to tell mourners to pay their TV licence, and took the opportunity to talk about himself and his achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The SABC board has asked Communications Minister Faith Muthambi to appoint former chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng as its acting COO until December.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The board resolved that he be appointed acting COO as of September 19.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday rejected his bid for leave to appeal against a High Court ruling that set aside his permanent appointment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday Motsoeneng took to the stage at the funeral of <span class=\"st\">Kwaito star Mandoza, in Soweto, to hit out at his critics.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been listening to people, and I have been observing when people are saying, Hlaudi is out. You can&#8217;t decide for my future. I will decide for my future.<\/p>\n<p>He said that should he leave the SABC, it would not be the first time. &#8220;I left the SABC and I came back stronger, and stronger&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng said he didn&#8217;t need to be COO to deliver. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter what position I occupy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Motsoeneng reportedly used his opportunity to urge people to pay their TV licences. &#8220;Pay your TV licence\u201a&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7uq6TakiPk\" width=\"640\" height=\"388\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the SABC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/137787\/sabc-board-asks-muthambi-to-appoint-motsoeneng-as-acting-coo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SABC board asks Muthambi to appoint Motsoeneng as acting COO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/137307\/motsoeneng-to-report-to-sabc-as-ordinary-employee\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Motsoeneng to report to SABC as \u2018ordinary employee\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/137193\/the-way-is-open-to-fire-motsoeneng-from-the-sabc-da\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The way is open to fire Motsoeneng from the SABC: DA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On and off again SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng took to the stage at Mandoza&#8217;s funeral to tell mourners to pay their TV licence, and took the opportunity to talk about himself and his achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,667],"class_list":["post-137889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137889","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=137889"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137911,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137889\/revisions\/137911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}