R2K: Maguvhe should face the music in a court of law

The public broadcaster's last remaining board member handed in his resignation to President Jacob Zuma, less than a week after he faced a grilling in Parliament. 

The once defiant University of SA (UNISA) professor had vowed not to step down after one after another of his board members resigned, with two of them tending their resignations during a recent committee sitting in Parliament which sought to address the issues at the public broadcaster.

But Right2Know's Micah Reddy believes Maguvhe should be criminally charged.

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"It seems like a pathetic, last-ditch attempt to save his skin. Hlaudi Motsoeneng's support base has completely fallen away. The cabal itself, which consists of Motsoeneng and Maguvhe, is splitting up. They will probably end up turning on each other," says Reddy.

The Portfolio Committee on Communications, which is busy probing the fitness of the SABC board to hold office, resolved in October to ask all the remaining SABC board members to resign.

But Reddy believes even though Maguvhe has finally saw it fit to do the right thing and resign, he still has a case to answer.

"Franky, what Maguvhe has been complicit in, is potentially criminal. We are talking about dodgy deals cut in very irregular ways with politically-connected friends. Irregular removal of staff which amounted to purges and possible perjury in the commission of inquiry. We heard that it seems like minutes had been doctored. And of course there was the defying of the public protector," says Reddy.