Controversial former SABC chief working officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has run out of authorized appeals and should now pay again an R11.5-million “success price” he was paid by the general public broadcaster.
The Particular Investigating Unit (SIU) stated the constitutional court docket on Wednesday dismissed an attraction by Motsoeneng of an earlier supreme court docket of attraction judgment which discovered him liable to pay again the R11.5-million – plus curiosity – to the general public broadcaster.
Motsoeneng had appealed a January 2023 supreme court docket of attraction judgment, which had dismissed his attraction of an earlier excessive court docket judgment with prices. The excessive court docket in Johannesburg had discovered that the cost of the R11.5-million success price was illegal and invalid. He was ordered to pay again the unique cash, plus curiosity, which introduced his legal responsibility to the SABC to R18-million.
The success price associated to his function in securing a contract with MultiChoice Group for broadcast rights.
It’s not clear whether or not Motsoeneng, who was seen as near former President Jacob Zuma, has the technique of paying again the cash, although the SIU has already clawed again about R6.5-million from his pension advantages, which he’ll now not obtain.
“The SIU welcomes and sees the constitutional court docket’s determination of 18 September 2024 as a optimistic step because it clears the best way to pursue the excellent quantity from Motsoeneng,” the investigating unit stated in an announcement on Thursday.
Final December, Motsoeneng informed TechCentral that the SABC did “not have a leg to face on”.
‘Couldn’t do what I used to be doing’
“There’s a notion among the many public that I used to be paid from public cash, however that was cash that I raised for the SABC. After I received to the SABC, it was in bother financially – I took it from R400-million on the books to R1.4-billion [in cash], with R8-billion in income,” he stated.
Motsoeneng stated that when he left the SABC in 2016, the cash coming into the broadcaster’s coffers decreased as a result of the individuals who have been left there “couldn’t do what I used to be doing”.
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“They didn’t know find out how to run it. They’re unskilled,” he stated.
Motsoeneng’s cell phone was switched off on Thursday when TechCentral tried to succeed in him for touch upon the constitutional court docket judgment. — © 2024 NewsCentral Media
