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Cape Town - A panel of top SABC executives on Tuesday defended the controversial Yizo Yizo programme, saying it was aimed at educating teenagers about issues such as sex and crime. The programme, ...
Cape Town – Anything remains possible with a Swiss army knife and a little bit of ingenuity. In an amazing display of viewership traction Angus MacGyver is singlehandedly saving the SABC with a ...
The SABC’s streaming service has seen tremendous growth recently, amassing 850,000 users since its relaunch. This has nearly doubled since October, when viewership was 500,000.
The SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng says the public broadcaster will now launch with only 5 TV channels once the long-delayed commercial start of South Africa’s switch from analogue to digital ...
This tragic incident occurred in the Eighties live on the SABC’s TV1. It was the 8pm news and the newsreader, either Michael de Morgan or John Bishop, had called in sick. In a mad scramble to find ...
Two years after public protector Thuli Madonsela found that the SABC chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, had lied about his matric certificate, she is “taken aback” that her findings ...
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has addressed concerns arising from the non-broadcast of the Afrikaans television news bulletin this past weekend. In a statement on Tuesday, the ...
The SABC has announced that 621 people will leave the organisation at the end of March 2021 in one of the most brutal retrenchment exercises undertaken by the state broadcaster. Staff will be cut ...
The SABC revealed this while tabling its 2023/24 annual report in Parliament. Challenges at SABC SABC’s CFO, Yolande van Biljon, said she is uncertain if the broadcaster will be able to meet its ...
The SABC unveiled its election coverage plan to the media at its headquarters in Johannesburg towards the end of last week. In the plan, the public broadcaster has committed itself to reporting ...
The SABC estimates the cost of its public mandate at some R800 million (about US$44 million) a year. There is very little government money flowing into the SABC, leaving it overwhelmingly ...
T he SABC has recorded nearly R500 million in net losses in six months into the 2023/24 financial year, Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Philly Mapulane said on Tuesday.