The parties are leading a call to have the posts readvertised in the hope that more suitably qualified South Africans will avail themselves. Parliament's communications portfolio committee is expected to meet next week to short-list candidates.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said there was not "enough quality" from which to pick. Instability at the board has put off potentially suitable candidates who fear serving on the board may damage their curriculum vitaes (CVs), the parties said.
In the past, hundreds of submissions were made in the jostling for SABC board posts. However, earlier this year, only 24 candidates applied for two vacant board positions.
Yesterday DA MP and communications spokesman Gavin Davis said: "People I have been speaking to in the industry say you will have to be mad to apply for an SABC board position...
"I have suggested to the committee that we postpone the shortlisting and call for more applications after the legal opinion has been acted on."
On Tuesday Parliament's legal services office delivered a legal opinion finding that Communications Minister Faith Muthambi had acted unlawfully when she backed the dismissal of three SABC board members.
The Department of Communications said it had "noted the developments regarding the presentation of the legal opinion".
Portfolio committee chairwoman Joyce Moloi-Moropa was not immediately available for comment yesterday.
EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, who also sits on the communications portfolio committee, said: "The crisis is much deeper (at the SABC). It has to do with general perceptions that (it) is unstable."
Among the CVs received to date for the vacant board seats were those of Collen Weapond, who sits on the National Lotteries Board; Prof Jannie Rossouw, head of the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand; and Saskia Hickey, a former radio host and producer who works for the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business.
Source: Business Day
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