Paying TV licence fees is a legal requirement in South Africa, but residents and the SABC want to kiss TV licences goodbye.

South Africans and the country’s public broadcaster have wanted to say goodbye to the problematic TV licence scheme for ...

The SABC is facing a deep financial crisis, but solutions to save the business have been met with widespread controversy.

South Africans have once again been encouraged to add the payment of their TV licence to their budget for household expenses. According to the SABC 2023/24 Annual Report, the public broadcaster is ...

According to the SABC Annual Report for 2023/2024, the public broadcaster collected over R686 million in TV licence fees in the past financial year, although total TV licence debt still amounted ...

The South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has urged South Africans to pay their TV licences in the new year, as the public broadcaster has faced a decline in revenue gained from TV licence fees ...

The report from the public broadcaster showed that the revenue generated was the collective efforts of the debt collection agencies as well as SABC internal collections. TV licence fees are ...

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) plans to replace TV licences in South Africa with a new funding model.

Financial sustainability will require legislative change. The financial statements show that television licence fees received made up just 16% of the SABC’s revenue. Earnings from advertising came to ...

The state broadcaster suffers from decreasing audiences, declining revenue, mounting losses, and an ever-weakening balance ...

The SABC Bill should redefine what a TV licence is, and a public service media levy would be a good example Among the funding mechanisms called for by the SABC are a “device-independent levy”, the ...