{"id":52733,"date":"2014-02-05T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T07:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=52733"},"modified":"2014-02-05T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T07:29:15","slug":"sabc-lacks-essential-skills-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/52733\/sabc-lacks-essential-skills-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SABC lacks essential skills: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skills audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found that executives and senior managers at the SABC do not meet the minimum strategic thinking skills, The Star reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The (PwC) report, which was presented to Parliament&#8217;s communication oversight committee on Tuesday, also found that 56 percent of the broadcaster&#8217;s management were unable to demonstrate adequate problem solving levels and make critical decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that the SABC also lacked digital migration skills.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, SABC board member Bongani Khumalo told Parliament the board was fully functional and senior managers were men and women of high integrity who were &#8220;effectively supervised,&#8221; the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, DA MP Marian Shinn called on Communication Minister Yunus Carrim to take drastic steps to address the failures at the SABC and to consider implementing a management rescue plan.<\/p>\n<p>The independent audit report also revealed the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>60% of executive and senior managers do not meet the minimum strategic thinking skills for executives;<\/li>\n<li>56% were unable to demonstrate adequate levels in solving problems and making decisions;<\/li>\n<li>15% demonstrated only marginal competence in strategic thinking; and<\/li>\n<li>35% of the group did not consider the financial information provided to them as a skills test during the audit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on broadcasting<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SABC CEO must face the music\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/52664\/sabc-ceo-must-face-the-music\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SABC CEO must face the music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Widespread corruption at SABC: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/49962\/widespread-corruption-at-sabc-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Widespread corruption at SABC: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Carrim must answer for MultiChoice-SABC deal: DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/46797\/carrim-must-answer-for-multichoice-sabc-deal-da\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Carrim must answer for MultiChoice-SABC deal: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to E-tv slams secret DStv-SABC deal: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/46792\/e-tv-slams-secret-dstv-sabc-deal-report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">E-tv slams secret DStv-SABC deal: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A skills audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has found that executives and senior managers at the SABC do not meet the minimum strategic thinking skills, The Star reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,2093,667],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-marian-shinn","tag-sabc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52734,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions\/52734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}