... Christine Qunta, Vundla, Lagardien and myself, Bheki Khumalo, have all independently expressed a lack of confidence in the leadership of the chairperson.
Not the ANC; not Polokwane.
Towards the conclusion of his letter he said that this part of the crisis was the result of the deliberate effort of the board of focusing on removing the group CEO rather than on what they were supposed to do. This is one of the board members raising those issues, not the ANC, not Polokwane, no one else. This is the board members themselves raising this particular matter. [Interjections.]
When we heard the inquiry we were honest, as people had made their submissions to the committee in terms of allegations against the executive managers of the SABC. Cope was there - in the committee. They didn't raise any issue of T-shirts in the committee where they were required to raise issues against the executive.
Now, I think I know why the matter is surfacing today. The matter is surfacing only because they don't have other issues to make headlines of. Shame! [Interjections.] [Applause.] This is the only matter with which they can capture headlines. So, I hope that the media will pick that up - that they will be brought into the mainstream media - because lately they have fallen off the media bandwagon. [Interjections.]
We should all agree that it's now or never.