The Democratic Alliance has taken issue with government’s final revisions to the broadcasting digital migration policy, warning that the changes…
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In what can only be described as a victory for MultiChoice and its allies, government has rejected any notion of an encryption system based on conditional access in its final amendment to South Africa’s
The South African Communist Party has expressed concern at the recent developments at the SABC, expressing its worry about at the removal of ANC-aligned member Hope Zinde from the SABC board for her apparent opposition to the sale of the public broadcaster’s
Communications minister Faith Muthambi on Tuesday revindicated sweeping powers to hire and fire the SABC’s top staff and initiate the removal of board members. Briefing MPs, she challenged the notion that the SABC was an independent public broadcaster
The final broadcast digital migration policy will be published in the Government Gazette next week, the communications department said on Monday. “The new policy seeks to clarify the use of a control system
South Africa may finally be on the verge of making some real progress in its seemingly never-ending move from analogue to digital terrestrial television. But important questions remain unanswered
SABC nonexecutive director Hope Zinde insisted on Friday that she is still a member of the public broadcaster’s board. “I want to assure you that I am still very much a member of the board of the SABC,” she said in a statement. The SABC board passed
The SABC board passed a vote of no confidence in nonexecutive director Hope Zinde and removed her from the post on Thursday. “Today’s meeting managed to only deal with issues relating to one
Government-provided set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television will not contain conditional access based on encryption, and prospective pay-television operators wanting to use such a system
MultiChoice has hit back strongly at claims by another media group Caxton and by two public broadcasting advocacy groups that its 2013 deal with the SABC over the supply of two television