The DA is petitioning President Cyril Ramaphosa to reject some of the names approved by parliament to serve as new SABC board members.
The DA did not support the appointment of another candidate, David Maimela, saying he is a well-known ANC activist who would not be non-partisan as an SABC non-executive director.The EFF's Nazier Paulsen said they also did not support the appointment of Cooper and Maimela.
"We do not believe that some of the individuals here have the will and capacity to fix the SABC. We therefore reject this report," he said.
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