MEDIA, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday announced a new Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) board chaired by telecoms entrepreneur Dennis Magaya.
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In a statement last night, Moyo said the appointment of the board followed necessary consultations that started after the dissolution of the previous board chaired by ex-Premier Service Medical Aid Society chief executive Cuthbert Dube in November last year.
Magaya (44) is a Zimbabwean telecoms entrepreneur with vast ICT experience in the technological and commercial aspects of telecommunication and broadcasting sectors and their interface.
Other members of the board are Ndabezinhle Dlodlo, who is the current chairperson of the Department of Publishing at the National University of Science and Technology, Southern African Research and Documentation Centre founding director Phyllis Johnson, South Africa-based Zimbabwean broadcast engineer Gelfand Kausiyo and leading social and development activist with an interest in rural communications and agriculture Donald Khumalo.
Also on the board are Joyce Jenje-Makwenda, Charity Manyeruke, Rudo Mudavanhu, Gibson Munyoro, Cleopatra Matanhire-Mutisi and Blessing Rugara.
“Among other urgent tasks before it, the new ZBC board is expected, and indeed required, to restructure and turnaround ZBC to ensure it has the right skills to make it commercially viable and technologically sound as a public broadcaster with a national mandate in light of the challenges of digital migration and the requirements of Zimbabwe’s new Constitution and informed by the outcome of the forensic and strategy audit of the ZBC that is about to be done by independent auditors under the auspices of the Comptroller and Auditor General,” Moyo said.
“Each and every member of the board has been appointed in their own right with the expectation that they will each and all constructively contribute to the wellbeing and success of the ZBC not as standalone or unaccountable individuals but as organic parts of one dynamic collective, the ZBC board, whose members will support one another and work together driven by a common and unifying national broadcasting purpose.”
