R480k For What? SABC Rubbishes Reports On Tbo Touch’s Half A Million Salary
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) denies that it’s going to pay one of their return soldiers, Thabo ‘Tbo Touch’ Molefe, close to half a million a month.
So over the weekend reports circulated the social media after a Sunday publication claimed that the on-air presenter was offered R480K to return on radio. The report stirred uproar online with SAns calling out the corporation for paying a mere radio jock such a hefty salary a few months after it had retrenched hundreds of employees.
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Just last April SABC was retrenching workers citing operational issues etc and cutting on the wage bill. But today they are offering Tbo Touch a 480k a month contract. Ridiculous if you ask me
Ridiculous!— Vho Madzivhandila (@phethani4) March 7, 2022
The SABC said in a statement to SurgeZirc SA that suggestions that Molefe will be paid such a large salary were “misleading and wrong.”
“The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) refutes the claims made in yesterday’s Sunday World article titled ‘Metro FM gets Tbo Touch back at R480 000 per month,”’ read the statement.
“The SABC’s GCEO does not get involved in line up negotiations, as that is the job of programme managers and business managers. In addition, the SABC does not pay car allowances and other fringe benefits to freelancers.
“The SABC’s radio stations are guided by EXCO approved standardized freelance rates, which would not see anyone earning even half of the amount quoted in the newspaper.
“Lastly, independent contractors do not get involved in soliciting sales and sponsorship, as the SABC does not have a commission scheme that covers individuals outside of sales staff.”
