Pule wants in on SABC board appointments

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• Mail & Guardian: Pule wants in on SABC board appointments... Pule is reported to have told journalists yesterday that "it was a 'challenge' for the minister of communications to have to account for an SABC board which he or she had not appointed."

  Fair enough, but then Mail & Guardian quotes her as saying, "We then thought we must look at what exactly is the problem at the SABC. Is it a problem of the board or is it both at board-level and executive-level, because it disrupts the workings of that corporation.

  "We also looked at what is it that makes these board members resign or have challenges."

  Doesn't she look at the resignation letters? She's certainly had enough of them and a thread that appears to run through many is that those resigning cite interference from guess who as a contributing factor. The SABC itself reported as follows:

  "Ministerial interference within the appointment of SABC executive seems to be one of the reasons why the board members decided to resign.

  "The other thing they talked about is the issue of ministerial interference and they basically said that in terms of the appointment of the executives, such as CEO, there has been input from the minister which has created confusion."

  That seems pretty clear then.

• Mail & Guardian: ANC, DA: BBC report on white South Africans distorts truth... Make a note of the date... the ANC and DA actually agreed on something - neither is happy with a controversial BBC report on white South Africans.

  The report, as a video and also in the form of an article), among other things, suggests not all white South Africans have a future here, whites (particularly farmers) are victims of violence and crime, and the SA government is not exactly exerting itself to put things right.

  

• MyBroadband: SAPS website hacked, sensitive info leaked: reports... The South African Police Service website has been hacked, and, MyBroadband reports, "sensitive information [has been] posted online."

  The hacker, "DomainerAnon", apparently managed to blow the cover of many thousands of South Africans "who lodged a complaint with police on their website, provided tip-offs or reported crimes."

  So now, if you have been in trouble with the police, thanks to an anonymous tip-off, and want to know who landed you in it, you may well be able to do so.

  Absolutely brilliant... A master stroke...Not! That will do wonders for the fight against crime in this country, and if anyone who provided a tip-off to the police or reported a crime ends up being assaulted - or worse, "DomainerAnon" (whoever the hell you are) ... you will have blood on your hands.

• SABC: Mbuli to be given a provincial official send off... TV and radio presenter Vuyo Mbuli, who died on Saturday (his death has been attributed to a pulmonary embolism) will be given a provincial official funeral and will be laid to rest at Heroes Acre, West Park Cemetery on 24 May 2013. The service will be at St. John's College, Houghton at 9am.
  Farewell Vuyo, you did us proud.