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President Kgalema
Motlanthe appoints Dan Moyane to the MDDA
Board
The Media Development and Diversity Agency
(MDDA) is a statutory development agency
for promoting, supporting and ensuring
media development and diversity, set up
as a partnership between the South African
Government and major print and broadcasting
media companies, in terms of the MDDA
Act No. 14 of 2002.
The President of the Republic of South
Africa (President Kgalema Motlanthe) has,
in terms of Section 4 (1) (b) of the MDDA
Act appointed Mr. Dan Moyane to the MDDA
Board with effect from 20 January 2009
for a term of office of three years. Mr.
Moyane represents the broadcast media
in the Board in terms of Section 4 (1)
(c) of the MDDA Act. The President further
renewed the terms of office of Ms Ingrid
Louw and Ms Baby Tyawa for
a further three year term of office.
Mr. Moyane is the Group Chief Executive
Officer of Mazole Holdings which is a
marketing, media and business communications
company. He has been in the radio broadcasting
industry for 28 years (from 1980 to 2008),
eleven of which were spent in the public
broadcaster in Mozambique, fifteen of
which in a private commercial broadcaster
in South Africa and nearly two of which
in South Africa’s public broadcaster.
During this career Dan worked his way
up from a trainee reporter to a news editor,
from a news reader to a talk show host
and from a station manager to an executive
chairman of a subsidiary of a JSE listed
company. He is reliable and diplomatic
with an excellent understanding of broadcasting
and political trends, combined with professional
integrity, leadership qualities and management
skills.
The MDDA welcomes the new Board members,
commit to working with and supporting
them, look forward to their leadership
and guidance in the governance of the
Agency, and wish them all the best in
the quest to pursue the mandate enshrined
in the MDDA Act. The new members will
be taking an oath or affirmation on the
29th January 2009 committing them to fairness,
freedom of expression, openness and accountability,
and upholding and protecting the Constitution
and other laws of the Republic.
Issued by:
Lumko Mtimde, Chief Executive Officer
For further information please contact:
Hariet Mhlanga at (011) 726 3336
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