SABC Chairman Ellen Tshabalala to be removed from office.

South Africa’s Parliament committee has found SABC Chairman Ellen Tshabalala guilty on two counts of misconduct by the executive director of legal services, Jan Van Wyk at the University of South Africa (UNISA) . The committee found her guilty of misrepresenting her qualifications and lying under oath.

Van Wyk confirmed that even though Tshabalala had registered for a BCom degree in 1988, and again in 1996, she failed to obtain the qualification. According to Unisa records, she had also registered for a diploma in labour relations in 1995.

During the academic year, she passed two, failed two and did not write exams for two of the modules. In January 1996, she was allowed to rewrite the two she could not write the previous year. She obtained a mark of 13% for her human resources module and 35% for labour relations. Unisa then wrote to Tshabalala informing her that she had not qualified to redo the course.

The committee has unanimously agreed that Ellen be removed from SABC board as the chairperson and as a board member when the National Assembly resumes next year and recommending she be suspended from her post in the meantime.

 Ellen has 14 days to respond to a report containing the findings and recommendations.
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