Following a SABC board meeting on 20 January, the corporation announced today that it had taken the decision to “part ways’ with suspended SABC CEO Dali Mpofu.
According to a report by The Sunday Times which appeared on The Times website, Mpofu confirmed that he had received a letter from the SABC board on Thursday night informing him of its decision to fire him.
Mpofu said he was “not going to take this lying down’. He will meet his lawyers this weekend to explore his options, he told The Sunday Times today.
The battle saga of Mpofu and the SABC board began on 7 May when Mpofu was suspended after he suspended news chief Snuki Zikalala for apparently leading confidential documents and internal communications.
After an independent inquiry, Zikalala was cleared of these accusations and reinstated.
Mpofu took his suspension to the courts on several occasions and at one time he was un-suspended by a court decision but then suspended again by the board.
