Communications minister Solly Malatsi wants both state-owned companies to make better use of their resources.
Solly Malatsi said the fractious relationship between the SABC and Sentech represents an “opportunity cost” given that funds spent on legal fees by the two state-owned companies could be redirected to helping both firms function better.
“For two entities that are under one department to be involved in a litigious battle just doesn’t sound right,” Malatsi told TCS. “To have a protracted legal deadlock over this is not in the best interest of anyone.”in September that Malatsi was appointing an independent mediator to help the companies come to a resolution over the SABC’s R1-billion in debt to Sentech for signal distribution fees, which the public broadcaster has previously labelled “unfair monopoly pricing”.
In a presentation to parliament last month, the department of communications & digital technologies said negotiations between SABC and Sentech were at “loggerheads”, with neither party willing to accept concessions from the other over payment of the outstanding fees.According to Malatsi, however, recent engagements with executives from both entities suggest progress may now be possible.
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