Former SABC board member Michael Markovitz described the proposal to break up and scrap the public broadcaster as a “non-starter”.
Former South African Broadcasting Corporation board member Michael Markovitz has emphasised that the country needs a public broadcaster, and it mustn’t be shut down.
The DA’s draft policy highlights several other proposals and determines if the public broadcaster should be scrapped. These proposals are for scenarios where South Africa decides that the SABC should remain. “The next step, which I think is the most important, is how do we fund the public broadcaster?” said Markovitz.
One proposal in the party’s ICT draft policy document is decentralising the SABC into provincial broadcasting stations independently run by their respective provinces. “Half of the SABC’s staff are ‘not suited or skilled’ to hold the positions they are employed in,” it added. “Government must engage with international and local streaming providers and consider a possible mutually beneficial relationship through content sharing,” it said.
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