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The SABC recently closed bids for potential service providers to build and manage a TV Licence rewards programme. A bid document posted on the public broadcaster’s website explained that the ...
The SABC recently admitted it is has seen an increase in non-compliance by TV licence holders which hurt its revenue in 2020. In a presentation to Parliament, the broadcaster revealed TV licence ...
South Africa's public broadcaster will soon launch a SABC TV Licence loyalty programme, with tiered rewards, to get more TV households to pay their annual TV Licence fee. According to the SABC's ...
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago didn't respond to a media enquiry made two weeks ago asking why the SABC agreed to dropping the SABC TV licence requirement for a DTT set-top box. In addition, Faith ...
However, it’s speculated that the alternative to a SABC TV licence may be a new ‘SABC levy’. Except imposing yet more taxes on citizens who are staring down a 1% VAT increase over two years ...
In the 2021/22 financial year, the SABC only collected R815 million in TV licence revenue, which is just above 18% of the nearly R4.45 billion it billed viewers in the same period, which is a ...
The SABC must be allowed to sink or swim with its own ability to innovate and actually do a good job, not just leach off a population required by law to feed it cash.” TV is dead but the SABC ...
This follows a fake statement that went viral on social media, falsely attributed to the SABC, claiming the broadcaster would introduce car radio licences due to a dramatic decline in TV licence ...
Cape Town – SABC CEO James Aguma shocked on Wednesday by telling parliament the SABC wants the Broadcasting Act changed to include more viewing devices so that more people need a SABC TV licence, for ...
TV licence payments and regulations, as well as penalties for not paying a TV licence, should be increased and made harsher, the SABC says. The SABC has reviewed its public broadcasting policy ...
Johannesburg - The SABC is owed a staggering R25 billion in unpaid licence fees that have steadily accumulated over three years and are sinking the public broadcaster into deep financial trouble.
The idea of a TV license is not unique to South Africa with countries such as the UK, France and Germany all using a license to generate fees for public broadcasting. At present, South African’s ...