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  • Communities comment on the SABC’s Charter

    Background

    The SOS Coalition has discussed in some detail the importance of taking its campaigns to community level. One of SOS’s most important campaigns is to call for a complete review of broadcasting policy and the development of a new SABC Act. One of the key areas in this process that needs analysis is the SABC’s Charter. The Charter sets the vision and mandate for the SABC.

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  • FXI Calls for Protection of Confidential Sources

    FXI requests the introduction of a "shield law" to protect confidential journalistic sources and information

    The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) has asked the South African Law Reform Commission to investigate amending section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) to introduce a "shield law" to protect confidential journalistic sources and information.

    In a press statement, the organisation says the recent debacle over issuing subpoenas calling for two e.tv journalists to divulge their sources and confidential information highlighted the controversial point at which conflicting rights collide and the manner in which section 205 is abused.

    Source: 
    <br /> Mail and Guardian
    Article link: 
    http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-23-fxi-wants-better-protection-for-confident...

  • South Africa’s Digital TV Delayed

    SA postpones transition from analogue television broadcasts to digital broadcasts

    South Africa's transition from analogue television broadcasts to digital broadcasts has been postponed by possibly two years or even longer.

    The reason was that the country’s television industry and the digital Set Top Boxes (STBs) that viewers would have to purchase to watch TV in future, will not be ready in time.

    The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) recently published the final digital migration regulations for the transitional process from digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) in the government gazette.

    Source: 
    News24

  • SABC Board Behind New Boss

    SABC board members scorn reports suggesting there is a rift between the new board and the ­public broadcaster’s new chief executive, Solly Mokoetle

    SABC board members have scorned weekend reports suggesting there is a rift between the new board and the ­public broadcaster’s new chief executive, Solly Mokoetle.

    According to a Sunday Times report the new board is set to challenge Mokoetle’s appointment by the SABC’s interim board.

    The Sunday Times quoted anonymous board members saying they would act on the Gobodo findings, allegedly that Mokoetle had failed in his corporate governance duties.

    Source: 
    Mail and Guardian
    Article link: 
    http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-01-08-sabc-board-backs-new-boss

  • New Bill to Scrap TV Licences

    The Department of Communications submits the Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which seeks to abolish television licences and introduce other changes to public broadcasting

    The Department of Communications has submitted the Public Service Broadcasting Bill, which seeks to abolish television licences and introduce other changes to public broadcasting in South Africa.

    The bill, should it be approved, will establish a Public Service Broadcasting Fund and also establish an international broadcasting services division within the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) and transfer Channel Africa to this new operating unit.

    Source: 
    Finance24

  • Maake on Hunger Strike Against SABC

    Actor-director Sello Maake ka Ncube is going on a hunger strike in protest of the way government and the SABC have been spending the public’s money

    Actor-director Sello Maake ka Ncube is going hungry for 30 days to protest the way government and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have been spending the public’s money.

    Maake, who joined a growing group of media professionals whose stated aim is to use the hunger strike to shame the SABC into getting its act together, believes South Africans are starving for local content.

    Maake says he had to take a stand because the public broadcaster is abusing the African culture.

    Source: 
    <br /> Citizen
    Article link: 
    http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=107095,1,22

  • SABC Denies Suspension Reports

    SABC interim board denies rumours that four executives had been suspended

    The interim board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has denied rumours that four executives had been suspended in connection with fraud and mismanagement highlighted in an auditor-general’s report.

    The board was reacting to reports emanating from within the SABC that Robin Nicholson (chief financial officer), Mvuzo Mbebe (group executive: content enterprises), Mabela Satekge (head: procurement) and Anton Heunis (head: audience services) have been suspended.

    Source: 
    <br /> Business Day
    Article link: 
    http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=82768

  • Cape Town Television Temporarily Off Air!

    Cape Town TV (CTV), the mother city’s own community television channel, has been forced to go off air temporarily. Cash flow problems have inhibited the station’s ability to pay its transmission costs, but the station’s management is confident that the situation will be resolved shortly, when the necessary funds have been raised.

    Date published: 
    10/02/2009
    Organisation: 
    SOS Campaign
    Issued by: 
    SOS Campaign

  • Oh to Live the Life (of a Dali)

    Oh to live the life of a Dali
    (not the Salvador surrealist one)
    fleecing the public broadcaster
    another one time over again
    he with the sort of usual business
    interests outside just in case

    Oh to live the life of a Dali
    not in a great hurry says he
    to go out and find a job
    like the some of us

    Oh to live the life of a Dali
    who apparently did not struggle
    to be a peasant lowly or otherwise
    at the back of the BEE queue

    Oh to live the life of a Dali

  • Charnley Defends SABC’s Stabilisation Plan

    SABC interim chairwoman, Irene Charnley defends her plan to stabilise the public broadcaster within the next five months

    The interim chairwoman of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Irene Charnley, has defended her plan to stabilise the public broadcaster within the next five months.

    Charnley says that the plan will not affect the SABC’s ability to meet legislated requirements.

    She also hit back at allegations that the public broadcaster, which is not commissioning any new content, is in danger of falling short of its local content requirements.

    Source: 
    <br /> Business Day
    Article link: 
    http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=78628