The SABC owes Sentech R1 billion.
Yesterday, the leadership of the public broadcaster together with the Minister of Communications, Solly Malatsi, briefed the committee on thethat is expected to firstly, deliver on its public mandate and that mandate is not funded or not funded sufficiently. You have athat is expected to evolve and become a broadcaster of the future using digital technologies, competing with over-the-top services but still the funding is not enough.
“This is largely because we expected that public mandate to be financed largely through the licence regime, the TV licences. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that that particular regime has failed,” adds Diko. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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