New amendments to SABC Bill make provision for household levy to replace TV licences fee.
The department says the amount to be paid will be agreed to between the communications, the national treasury and the Public Enterprises ministers.
He says, “From our side chairperson, we have made a proposal which has been very clear that utilizing television license fee as a mechanism to fund the SABC is not viable given the high evasion rate and therefore we have proposed that there must be an introduction of a household levy and to move away from the television license fee.”
One of the main objectives of the Bill is to provide a viable funding model for the organisation to sustain itself. “We are protecting Chair. We are protecting the independence of the SABC Chair as it is in line with the Constitution and that is what the cabinet was feeling very strongly about it – to say whatever you do you must ensure that the programming independence of the SABC in terms of SABC’s programme.
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