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
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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
Media group Caxton and two public broadcasting advocacy groups, SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa, are challenging a 2013 deal between MultiChoice and the SABC that appears to have led to the latter abandoning its support of
The Democratic Alliance wants former SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala, who resigned last December, to “pay back the money” she received during her 22-month tenure at the public broadcaster. “A reply to a DA parliamentary question reveals that former SABC chair
First there was one, then two, then just one again. Maybe, we thought, there can only be one South African pay-television operator. High-profile over-the-top services like Netflix are hitting the market, additional pay-TV licences have been awarded to Kagiso Media
Communications regulator Icasa is “obliged” to investigate the jamming of cellular signals and other incidents that led to an “unprecedented contravention of media freedom” during the state-of-the-nation
South Africans do love a good moan. Whether it’s Eskom’s rolling blackouts or the state of the country’s politics, we seem to find a measure of comfort in a good old groan, whether it’s done quietly