After being removed as acting Chief operating officer it was announced that Motsoeneng would move back to his previous position as Group Executive Editor of Provinces and Corporate Affairs of the SABC.
[2][3] In December 2016, the Western Cape High Court ruled that Motsoeneng's appointment as Group Executive was illegal and that he was "not entitled to occupy any position at the SABC".
[4] In June 2022 the state capture commission proposed criminal investigations into possible contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act when group CEO Lulama Mokhobo and COO Motsoeneng concluded an SABC agreement with the Gupta owned TNA newspaper.
[5] In July 2022 the High Court dismissed Motsoeneng's bid to appeal the repayment, with interest, of R11.5 million obtained unlawfully when the SABC concluded a deal with MultiChoice.
[8] He would become close to ANC politicians such as Ace Magashule and Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri who would later go on to become the Premier of Free State and later the Minister of Communication under President Thabo Mbeki.
[8] In 2008 he sought employment at the Free State provincial government as a communications officer but by 2009, was reinstated at the SABC[8] After being back for 9 months he was appointed as Acting COO.
[12] During his time at SABC Motsoeneng blocked any critical coverage of President Jacob Zuma[13] leading the Public Protector to state that his actions threatened to entrench a culture of impunity of people in power.
[16] In February 2014, the public protector, Thuli Madonsela released a report entitled, “When governance and ethics fail”[17] calling for the board of the SABC to take disciplinary action against Motsoeneng for dishonesty and the misrepresentation of his qualification, abuse of power and improper conduct in the appointments and salary increments for several employees.
In 2014, the Democratic Alliance brought an interim application before the Western Cape High Court calling for Motsoeneng's suspension pending a disciplinary hearing.
[24] After a media briefing on 19 April 2017, presented while on suspension, Motsoeneng proceeded to criticise the SABC, its current board members and parliamentary ad hoc committee that investigated the organisation.
[27] On 12 June 2017, the SABC finally sacked Motsoeneng after an internal disciplinary hearing found him to having lied about his qualifications, firing and retrenching staff and policy violations in regard to salary increases.
[28] In August 2017, he failed to appear in the Labour Court to answer questions as to why he shouldn't be held personally responsible for wrongly dismissing eight SABC journalists in July 2016.