Hon Speaker, hon members, today the chickens have come home to roost. [Applause.] What we have always suspected has now come to pass. Executive members who plunged the SABC into financial disaster remain in their jobs, while the board - the members of whom tried to correct the situation together with workers at the SABC - is being dissolved.
We now know that the SABC bought T-shirts for the ANC; that some members of management did not declare their vested interests in procurement; that management work was outsourced to consultants to the extent that management wanted to consult to attend board meetings; that management would interfere in tender adjudication and split tenders so as to avoid subjecting tenders to board approval; that management created expectations with preferred bidders; and that management suggested to the board to reach an out-of- court settlement with an unsuccessful bidder.
Let me say something. It is important to understand that we want today to call on the ANC to return the money they received as benefit for the printed ANC T-shirts. [Applause.] If you are democrats, you will show it today. If you are corrupt, you will not return the money. [Interjections.] You cannot sit with money from the public purse. [Interjections.]