SABC parly inquiry draft report leaked online

A preliminary report compiled by a parliamentary ad-hoc committee probing the fitness of the SABC board to hold office was leaked on social media on Tuesday.

The leak comes ahead of planned deliberations by the committee on Thursday and Friday to finalise the report after input has been received from its members.

Democratic Alliance (DA) MP and member of the committee Phumzile Van Damme confirmed the authenticity of the draft document on social networking site Twitter on Thursday morning, saying she had perused it and thought the report was “a good start”.

I have read the doc, it's a good start, but needs a lot of work. Working on the edits we believe need to happen this afternoon #SABCinquiry

— Phumzile Van Damme (@zilevandamme) January 18, 2017

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Among the recommendations of the working committee report is that witnesses found to have given misleading or false information to the committee should be sanctioned, and that the formal dissolution of the SABC board should be finalised as a matter of urgency.

The report also recommends that part of the first new tasks of an interim board at the public broadcaster should be to “institute an investigation into all irregular‚ fruitless and wasteful expenditure”.

Read the full report below.