People who do not know their jobs should not be employed in state-owned enterprises like satellite company Sentech, the Communication Workers Union said on Friday.

"CWU will push for the Minister of Communications, honourable Siphiwe Nyanda, to remove the entire board because they are not assisting in this state-owned enterprise with any strategy or vision," said spokesman Matankana Mothapo in a statement.

The union's comments come after Nyanda addressed the media on Thursday over a task team report into Sentech's "rudderless, inadequately funded and misdirected" business.

'CWU workers exploited'

"It has been in deficit for more than five years without any plan to make it active in our communication sectors, because most of the board members are about to retire," Mothapo said.

"We can't keep on dishing out bonuses to people who don't produce what is needed."

These employees had been preferred while CWU members were still exploited by top management, he claimed.

"We need change in Sentech before it becomes in disarray (sic)."