Chairperson of the SABC board Zandile Tshabala has slammed PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) over its scathing skills audit report of the beleaguered South African public broadcaster, according to a report.
She said the audit allegedly used "outdated" tests on SABC staff she says were used under apartheid, said Channel24.
ThePwC report – besides a wide-ranging skills audit of SABC personnel such as asking them to sit for a numeracy test and others – also did fact-based auditing of qualifications such as authenticating matric and tertiary certificates on file.
Besides finding that the SABC is lacking strategic thinkers in tests, PwC asked SABC staff what they think of the public broadcaster as part of the audit. That involved no tests.
"One of the things that I'm personally concerned about, what tools did they use to check to make an assessment of competences?" Tshabalala said to Mpho Tsedu, the presenter of SABC talk show Question Time.
Tshabalala went on to blast "competences tests" like "psychometric testing", said the report.
"There's competences like psychometric tests which has been dropped many years ago, because that was a system used in a racially divided society to marginalise certain people.
"So I'm very interested to understand the intricacies or methodologies that have been deployed by PwC to confirm certain findings in their report," said Tshabalala.
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