Sunday World reviews that Kaya 959 station manager Sibongile Mtyali was reportedly fired on Friday (25 November) and was instructed to depart with rapid impact however who will replace her? This is after Sizwe Dhlomo allegedly complained about sports activities presenter Mpho Maboi’s refusal to hitch the routine 12 pm assembly with the workforce.
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WHO MIGHT REPLACE SIBONGILE MTYALI?
The publication Sunday World additionally reveals that the previous station manager Sibongile Mtyali will possible get replaced by veteran broadcaster Thabo “Tbose” Mokwele, who hosts the 9:00 to 12:00 weekly slot titled The Best T In The City on Kaya 959.
Drum Magazine reveals that the radio legend Thabo ‘T-bose’ Mokelwe joined Kaya 959 in 2021 to deliver again a Touch of Soul to the station and has had greater than 20 years of radio expertise as he’s labored for YFM and Metro FM as effectively.
The former Metro FM station manager Sibongile Mtyali was allegedly fired by Kaya 959 after Sizwe Dhlomo complained about sports activities presenter Mpho Maboi allegedly regularly arriving late for his or her present.
Sources from the station instructed City Press this week that Sibongile Mtyali acquired Sizwe’s Dhlomo’s grievance, she highlighted that it was inside Maboi’s rights, as stipulated in her contract, to reach an hour earlier than the present begins at 3 pm.
“It’s been a norm that Sizwe arrives at 1 pm, but the contract indicates that presenters of the show are expected to be in the studio at 2 pm, so when Sibongile made him aware of this aspect, he claimed that he could no longer work with her.”
“People at the station are actually scared of him [Sizwe] since it is a known fact that he has very close ties with the board members,” mentioned one other supply.
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KAYA 959 LISTENERS REACT
Listeners and followers of the station took to social media to react to Sizwe Dhlomo’s sequence of tweets to handle speculations that he’s liable for Sibongile Mtyali getting fired. This is after Unathi Nkayi’s alleged dismissal at the station a 12 months in the past.
Sizwe mentioned {that a} former Sports man Sandile Van Heerden was let go with out a correct cause earlier than Mpho Maboi joined the industrial radio station.
“Amazing guy who always pitched in with the rest of the team we had built to contribute to the rest of the show & station…No reason was given for Sandile’s removal,” he wrote.
“Sibongile then called me into a meeting & said that Mpho would be joining the team, meaning that Sandile would leave & asked what I thought about that, I said ‘no problem, mina I’ll work with whomever you give me’…Our show meeting starts at 13:00. It’s something I instituted when I first got to Kaya. Everyone attends & if you aren’t in the building at the time, you can do so virtually. No problem,” Sizwe explains.
The afternoon drive presenter additionally instructed City Press that Sibongile Mtyali’s termination was not solely based mostly on his grievance and provides that his grievance got here from Maboi’s refusal to hitch the routine 12 pm assembly with the workforce:
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