Democratic Alliance(DA) in KwaZulu-Natal has accused the SABC of peddling the ANC agenda and being used to fight political battles by Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department(COGTA) MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube.
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Grieving granny tells of sorrow as her house collapses‚ killing her daughter and grandchild
In the pitch dark – moments after the deafening sound of cracking 
Her desperate search came too late. Her daughter‚ Mpume‚ 27‚ and her two-year-old granddaughter‚ Sbahle‚ were dead under the debris.
The mother and child were killed when the roof of the Chili family home gave way in the early hours of Friday morning.
The home that Pinky Chili was building was a project to realise the dreams of her late husband and was meant to be a place of refuge for her family.
The roof collapsed on this house in St Wendolins, Durban, on June 15, 2018 killing Mpume Chili and her two-year-old daughter Sbahle.
Dudu Chili holds her nephew Mfanafuthi, 4, who was injured along with his brother “Boy” when the roof collapsed on their home on June 15, 2018. His mother, Mpume Chili and sister Sbahle, 2, were both killed.
Now‚ surrounded by her grieving family and as her neighbours sorted through the rubble‚ Chili will forever blame herself for the death of her daughter and grandchild.
“Their [her children’s] father passed away in 2006 and I focused all my energy on them. Everything I did‚ I did for them‚ and I ended up killing them‚” she sobbed.
‘Matric does not define me’ – Hlaudi Motsoeneng
Motsoeneng was being cross-examined by the SABC at the Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Friday where he is challenging his dismissal from the public broadcaster.
Motsoeneng was dismissed in June 2017 after being found guilty of bringing the SABC into disrepute when he held a press conference.
Motsoeneng‚ during cross examination on Friday‚ took issue with a statement made by former SABC board member Krish Naidoo on December 9‚ 2016 when‚ accusing Motsoeneng of squatting at the broadcaster‚ said he could not understand how so many professionals were afraid of a “high school dropout”.
Motsoeneng told the commission that Naidoo knew very well that after 1994 the government recognised that experience counted as part of a person’s qualifications.
Motsoeneng said that Naidoo had even approved the SABC’s annual report which contained his qualifications. “How can I then be a dropout‚” he asked.
During his testimony earlier this week‚ Naidoo said he was considering suing Motsoeneng for defamation for referring to him as a sell-out.
Motsoeneng said the meaning of the word “sell-out” did not have the meaning it had in the past.
“Mr Motsoeneng called me a sell-out when he did a public address in April last year‚ and in political terms a sell-out has a very particular connotation.
“It means that someone sold out‚ can’t be trusted and you’re a traitor‚ so I have been contemplating over the last few months whether I shouldn’t sue him for this‚” Naidoo told the commission on Tuesday.
On Friday‚ Motsoeneng explained that a “sell-out” in the present context meant a person with whom you had agreed with on something at a meeting‚ who then went out and said something different in public.
