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New SABC chairman Obert Maghuve was elevated to the position as reward by President Jacob Zuma for his loyalty to communications minister Faith Muthambi and chief operating officer Hlaudi

Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn wants cabinet to “review and reverse” the broadcasting digital migration policy it adopted in March to “break the legal logjam that is crippling South Africa’s migration to digital broadcasting”. Her remarks

South Africa is part of a small list of countries that have failed to even get out of the starting blocks regarding digital migration, according to an international body. In 2006, South Africa and other countries in Europe, the Middle East and

Despite South Africa’s missing the deadline to migrate from analogue to digital broadcasting by Wednesday, 17 June, South Africans would still be able to watch free-to-air television, the communications ministry said. “Minister of communications

More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that

The SABC is not in crisis, according to communications minister Faith Muthambi. Muthambi has further promised that a new CEO for the public broadcaster — a position which has been vacant for months — will be hired “any time now”

SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appeal against the high court order that he be suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry, is set to be heard in the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein in September. This is after the case

Naspers chairman Koos Bekker said months before Yunus Carrim was fired as communications minister that he would not be reappointed to the job. This startling allegation is contained in a report by the Mail & Guardian on Friday, in which

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has “noted with disgust” media reports on the removal of three SABC board members in terms of which she has been accused by a parliamentary legal team of