Parliament has called on Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to continue talking to the SABC and the National Treasury to secure a R3.2bn bailout for the public broadcaster, says a report in The Star. Ndabeni-Abrahams has been under pressure since it emerged she did not back the rescue package for the SABC. The chair of the committee, Hope Papo, said the committee fully backed the SABC. ‘In the meantime, the committee will wait for the enhanced turnaround strategy, which should be available by the end of September,’ Papo said. The call for the engagement between the Minister, the SABC and the Treasury comes before Parliament debates the Department of Communications budget today. Opposition parties were up in arms this week after they found that Ndabeni-Abrahams may have misled Parliament last week concerning the SABC. This was after the DA found that Mboweni had written to the Minister of Communications last month telling her he would not give the SABC the R3.2bn bailout. Instead, Mboweni asked DG in the National Treasury, Dondo Mogajane, to look at the contingency reserves. Ndabeni-Abrahams told the committee she would rather quit her job than give the SABC money without a turnaround plan. The SABC has not made a profit in the past six years, and has suffered billions of rand in losses and irregular expenditure.