Wednesday, June 30, 2010

BREAKING. The SABC's head of public broadcasting services, Lulama Mokhobo, resigns.


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I understand that the SABC's head of public broadcasting services, Lulama Mokhobo has resigned after five years at the broadcaster. She is leaving the South African public broadcaster and today is her last day.

I can tell you that she told the SABC that she is leaving for ''greener pastures'' and that Lulama Mokhobo's resignation comes about two or three months before her contract as group executive: public broadcasting services (PBS) at the SABC would have come to an end.

I just spoke to the SABC and Kaizer Kganyago, SABC spokesperson confirmed Lulama Mokhobo's departure. ''She said she wanted to move on. She's moving on elsewhere to greener pastures,'' he tells me. The SABC just released a statement in which Lulama Mokhobo says she has ''spent an incredible five years at the SABC'' and that she wishes ''the organisation at large every bit of success as they continue the mammoth task of turning this critical institution into the highly respected and successful entity it should be''.

I'm also aware of a wolf in sheep's clothing. Somebody from MultiChoice's DStv will soon be joining On Digital Media (ODM)'s TopTV but the person's colleagues at DStv don't know yet that the person is jumping ship to a rival pay TV operator! This will be fun.