House Chairperson, Deputy President and Members of Parliament, the committee has considered the request from the Minister in the Presidency - Performance Monitoring and Evaluation as well as Administration, to recommend a suitable candidate to serve on the Media Development and Diversity Agency Board to fill a vacancy that will exist from the end of December 2012 due to the expiry of the term of Ms Gugu Msibi.
Before I go on to the next issue, Chair, I must say that under Ms Gugu Msibi, the Media Development and Diversity Agency, MDDA, repeatedly received unqualified audit reports, successfully completed its performance targets against predetermined objectives, and had sound management.
In her five years of heading the agency, there were no reports of noncompliance with laws and regulations, and they never appeared before either the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, SCOPA, or the Standing Committee on Appropriations, SCOA. The MDDA is one of the few state organs or entities that are well-governed and managed. It has achieved a lot with a very limited budget and resources.
As we bid farewell to Ms Gugu Msibi, we congratulate her on her good leadership record at the MDDA and hope she will remain an ambassador of the MDDA, and continue to mobilise support for it to ensure that the MDDA achieves its mandate of media diversity in South Africa.
On 15 November 2012 the committee interviewed the following candidates: Ms Fadila Lagadien, Mr Robert Dangisa Nkuna and Ms Denise Roodt.
After the said process, the committee resolved that we should recommend to the House, in accordance with section 4(1)(b) of the Media Development and Diversity Agency Act, Act 14 of 2002, that it recommend to the President that Mr Robert Nkuna be appointed to serve on the MDDA Board.
In the same vein there was the resignation of Ms Lewis Vale. As a committee we recommended that she ensure that there was no possibility of conflict of interest. She decided that she had to resign from the MDDA Board.
Accordingly, we interviewed five candidates for that particular position, Ms Nothando Zainab Migogo, Ms Noxolo Mtana, Ms Rachel Kalidass and Mr Molefe Mokgatle. After that process, which we embarked upon on 15 November 2012, the committee recommends to the House that, in accordance with section 4(1)(b) of the Media Development and Diversity Agency Act, Act 14 of 2002, it recommends to the President that Ms Nothando Migogo be appointed to serve on the MDDA Board for the remainder of the unexpired term. Thank you very much.
There was no debate.
Question put: That the House recommends Ms Nothando Migogo and Mr Robert Dangisa Nkuna for appointment to the Media Development and Diversity Agency Board.
Question agreed to.
Ms Nothando Migogo and Mr Robert Dangisa Nkuna accordingly recommended for appointment to the Media Development and Diversity Agency Board.
The names of the persons recommended for appointment will be forwarded to the President.