South Africa’s embattled public broadcaster is to receive R2.1-billion on 7 October as part of an initial tranche of a R3.2-billion bailout from the government.
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The SABC has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent times. The question that needs answering is: what needs to be done to fix it?
The SABC board has slammed the leaking of an internal memorandum authored by two non-executive directors. The document makes a series of serious allegations against the broadcaster’s CEO and chief financial officer.
Icasa’s proposal to force sporting bodies to make “games of national interest” freely available to the SABC will have unintended consequences not only for sports but also for constitutionalism. By Martin van Staden.
The SABC is technically insolvent and is struggling to honour payments to service providers and contractual obligations, its chief financial officer has said.
The SABC’s acting chief operating officer and its group executive for technology, Craig van Rooyen, has resigned, the public broadcaster said on Monday.
Access to data will increase, and prices will fall, only if government gets out of the way and allows companies to have more spectrum and compete more freely. By Christo Hattingh.
SABC chief financial officer Yolande van Biljon says there is no anticipation of “Day Zero” at the public broadcaster for the next three months. Full staff salaries, Van Biljon said, will continue to be paid.
A meltdown at some of South Africa’s biggest state companies is intensifying, placing the nation’s finances at risk and frustrating President Cyril Ramaphosa’s efforts to attract new investment and resuscitate a moribund economy.
Icasa has decided to conduct an inquiry into the so-called “must-carry regulations”, which allow MultiChoice and other pay-television operators to carry the SABC public service channels at no cost.