{"id":193894,"date":"2017-08-22T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=193894"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:25:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:25:19","slug":"interim-sabc-board-makes-shortlist-for-permanent-board-but-no-zikalala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/193894\/interim-sabc-board-makes-shortlist-for-permanent-board-but-no-zikalala\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim SABC board makes shortlist for permanent board, but no Zikalala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five members of the SABC interim board have made the shortlist of 36 for the permanent board.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the African National Congress nominated controversial former head of SABC news Snuki Zikalala, but when they presented a whittled down list, his name was removed.<\/p>\n<p>Former ANC Youth League leader Ronald Lamola was still on their list.<\/p>\n<p>The portfolio committee on communications on Tuesday decided if two or more parties nominate the same candidate, that person would make the shortlist that will be interviewed in September.<\/p>\n<p>When the committee adjourned for lunch, 20 of the 36 spots on the shortlist were filled.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the interim board &#8211; chairperson Khanyisile Kweyama, her deputy Mathatha Tsedu, Krish Naidoo, John Matisson and Febe Potgieter-Gqubule &#8211; Nomvuyo Batyi, currently a board member of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) &#8211; received unanimous support.<\/p>\n<p>Former SABC board member Rachel Kalidass were nominated by all parties present except the Economic Freedom Fighters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The other candidates who received support from more than one party and are thus on the list, are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thabiso Andrew Ramotso;<\/li>\n<li>Kharidza Dzuguda Rufus;<\/li>\n<li>Michael Grant Markovitz;<\/li>\n<li>Willie Currie;<\/li>\n<li>Leanne Govindsamy;<\/li>\n<li>Deenadaylen Konar;<\/li>\n<li>Harriet Meier;<\/li>\n<li>Dawn Earp;<\/li>\n<li>Michael Bauer;<\/li>\n<li>Judge Christopher Greenland;<\/li>\n<li>Desmond Golding;<\/li>\n<li>Mathumo Manaka; and<\/li>\n<li>Victor Rambau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The committee will continue its deliberations later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/interim-sabc-board-makes-shortlist-for-permanent-board-but-no-zikalala-20170822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/192256\/shortlisting-of-permanent-sabc-board-candidates-to-begin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shortlisting of permanent SABC board candidates to begin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five members of the SABC interim board have made the shortlist of 36 for the permanent board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":131424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-193894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193894","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193898,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193894\/revisions\/193898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}