A probe into the SABC has revealed that the national broadcaster has been paying for its employees’ M-Net and DStv subscriptions.  You can’t really blame the SABC’s employees for preferring non-SABC programming.  But it does seem a little silly for the national broadcaster to be forking out for its own staff’s subscription television “privileges”.  Especially when online TV is cheaper.

It’s been reported that the SABC spent more than R102,000 last year on satellite TV expenses submitted by employees, not to mention the R150-million it used to buy “trash television”  that has never even been flighted.

The probe, by the Special Investigating Unit, has been conducted to investigate widespread corruption, wasteful expenditure, fraud, undeclared interests and a broad spectrum of unethical conduct at the SABC.

But surely the SIU didn’t imagine it would discover just how much the SABC’s people “feel at home” with other broadcasters?  They really must try 2ov TV.

[Source: News24]