Ellen Tshabalala

Zandile Ellen Tshabalala also known as Ellen Tshabalala is the former Chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation(SABC).^[2]

In July 2014, it emerged that she allegedly lied on her CV when she applied for the post of Chairperson of the SABC.^[3][4][5][6] The CV before the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications, under which the SABC falls, Tshabalala said she graduated from the University of South Africa (UNISA) with a BCom and a postgraduate diploma in labour relations. The claim was repeated in a statement by the presidency of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, announcing her appointment. However, according to a Promotion of Access to Information Act application sent by the newspaper City Press, Unisa said Tshabalala had neither of the qualifications. UNISA's executive director of legal services and information, Jan van Wyk wrote in a letter to the newspaper City Press: "According to our records, no qualification was awarded to the mentioned individual."

At the time of the controversy, she was working on the following boards:^[1]

• The President’s Advisory Council on Broad-Based BEE
• Sishen Iron Ore Company
• Transnet Limited – SOC
• Transnet Foundation
• Cape Empowerment Limited
• Ascension Properties
• Port Shepstone Harbour Development Company
• Moral Regeneration Movement.

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