State Capture: Hlaudi says MultiChoice CEO told him he is ‘mad’

13 September 2019 - 09:00
By AMIL UMRAW
Former chief operating officer of the SABC Hlaudi Motsoeneng. File photo.
Image: Gallo Images Former chief operating officer of the SABC Hlaudi Motsoeneng. File photo.

Hlaudi Motsoeneng has boasted about securing a multimillion-rand deal between SABC and pay-TV giant MultiChoice, but an expert believes this same contract stifled SA’s hopes of completing a digital migration to Digital Terrestrial Television.

And in fact it was MultiChoice that came out tops, the expert says, despite the broadcaster’s former COO bragging about how he strong-armed the company.

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