William Bird, director at Media Monitoring Africa, says the government is actively defunding the state broadcaster.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation is at risk of a blackout, with the government actively defunding the public broadcaster.following the SABC’s presentation to parliament’s standing committee on public accounts, where it revealed that 9.2 million TV licence account holders owe the public broadcaster more than R44 billion.
“The scenario is absolutely catastrophic. You have the SABC’s finances plummeting. You have government and parliament failing to do their job.” Regarding the way forward, he explained that the concept of a public levy to replace the current TV licence scheme isn’t unreasonable.
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