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

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