The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is facing action on two fronts from opposition parties. The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday said it wants the reinstatement of SABC board members Ronnie Lubisi‚ Rachel Kalidass and Hope Zinde as their removal was done on the legal advice of a “discredited attorney”.The Congress of the People (Cope) will on Wednesday “lay a charge of fraud” against the former chairwoman of the boad‚ Ellen Tshabala‚ at the Brixton police station.The DA’s communications spokesperson‚ Gavin Davis‚ said that it had emerged that communication minister Faith Muthambi’s “legal advisor‚ Daniel Mantsha‚ was struck off the roll of attorneys in 2007”.“This is significant‚” Davis said‚ “because it was on Mantsha’s advice that Muthambi recently overturned Parliament’s legal opinion on the removal” of Lubisi‚ Kalidass and Zinde.“Now that we know Mantsha is a discredited attorney‚ it follows that his advice to the minister can be discredited too‚” he said.Davis said Mantsha was at Muthambi’s side at a sitting of Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on June 22 “to overturn Parliament’s legal opinion that had found that the removal of three SABC board members was unlawful”.He said Mantsha’s argument that as none of them “had contested their dismissal and that there was therefore no reason to consider their reinstatement” was “false…as Lubisi made a public statement declaring that he had in fact lodged a complaint” to the committee chairperson‚ Joyce Moloi-Moropa.Davis said he wants Moloi-Moropa to call a meeting if the committee “to discuss this matter at the first available opportunity”.Cope‚ meanwhile‚ said it is opening its fraud case against Tshabala “with the sole aim of getting her to prove in court that she has the qualifications she claims she has or to face the legal consequences”.Tshabala resigned from the board in December 2014 citing the personal toll caused by the controversy surrounding her alleged lack of qualifications.Her resignation let her avoid having to answer questions from the communications portfolio committee.“It has become almost a norm in our country for people to present fake qualifications in order to secure a highly paid job with a huge salary‚” said Cope’s Dennis Bloem.“This is happening in all three spheres of government‚ parastatals and entities. After being caught out‚ they resign or walk away with a golden handshake.“Cope is very determined to chase after all these dishonest people and to bring them to book.”The party has also recently laid fraud charges against axed Passenger Rail Agency of SA CEO Lucky Montana and Daniel Mthimkhulu‚ an engineer who was suspended after claims that he lied about his qualifications...