{"id":175541,"date":"2017-05-17T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=175541"},"modified":"2017-05-17T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:56:33","slug":"sabc-acting-ceo-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/175541\/sabc-acting-ceo-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC acting CEO replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has announced that James Aguma is no longer SABC acting CEO, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ewnreporter\/status\/864746401712025601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>EWN<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The minister told parliament\u00a0today that Aguma has stepped down from his position at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Dlodlo said SABC Group Executive for Technology Tseliso Ralitabo has been appointed as acting CEO of the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows Aguma\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/210366-why-the-sabc-wants-a-tv-licence-for-smartphones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent push<\/a><\/strong> to charge South Africans a TV Licence fee for additional viewing devices, such as cellphones, computers, and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Aguma said the SABC was \u201cbudgeting for lower revenue from SABC TV Licences this year\u201d, and wanted to make changes to the Broadcasting Act to \u201cmake it mandatory for people to pay a TV Licence for more devices they view content on\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to SABC wants you to get a TV licence for your PC, cellphone and tablet: report\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/174277\/sabc-wants-you-to-get-a-tv-licence-for-your-pc-cellphone-and-tablet-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SABC wants you to get a TV licence for your PC, cellphone and tablet: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has announced that James Aguma is no longer SABC acting CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":128437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-175541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175541","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175645,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175541\/revisions\/175645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}