Mchunu was referring to information made available at the community radio station's AGM held on Saturday, 8 December 2007.
"Work ethic has greatly improved, with an increase in advertising but most important is that all of this has found resonance in the community – listenership is up. It now stands at 552 000", she added.
The basis for the improved performance is accredited to the take-over by the new board and management just over a year ago in March 2006, with Mchunu at the helm. Upon taking over, this new leadership, in an effort to install governance, instituted forensic investigations to all actions relating to inadequate and negligent management, and possibly fraudulent actions, which took place from 1999 to February 2006.
Follow-up steps were taken, one of them being the suspension of a board member who had been implicated in the forensic report.
A case was opened with the police in August and the final report on the forensic audit was handed over to them in October 2007. The case is currently being pursued by the Johannesburg Specials Commercial Crimes Unit.
The AGM resolved to retain three members from the old board and elect four new board members to the board of the Soweto Media Resources Centre, of which Jozi FM is the radio wing.
