The SABC staff are said to have received retrenchment memos, according to a report.
Hundreds of staff are expected to be laid off due to struggles that the broadcasting corporation has experienced of late. The public broadcaster has struggled to pay its service providers because of financial problems..
According to reports from the Sowetan, at a meeting held with unions on Thursday‚ SABC management announced that they were forced to retrench employees due to the organisation’s dire financial situation‚ high employee head count and a huge salary bill‚ among others.
A union official confirmed that the public broadcaster was struggling to fund its R1-billion plus annual wage bill.
A memo was distributed internally and sent to workers notifying them that the public broadcaster would be embarking on retrenchments. No further details have been released so far.
