The SABC has been facing an ongoing battle collecting TV licence payments, with over 80% of households ignoring their TV licence bills. As per the Broadcasting Act of 1999, any person that ...

You probably still receive repeated communiques asking to pay an outstanding SABC TV licence. Even though you haven’t watched terrestrial TV in years, perhaps decades. Strangely, SABC TV licence ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC’s) financial situation is deteriorating, and its failed TV licence scheme is one of the biggest contributors to its decline. Despite this ...

The number of South African households who pay their SABC TV Licence fee has fallen to a record low of 13%. "There is a high TV Licence evasion rate by South Africans, which is somewhere upwards of 87 ...

Meanwhile, the real solution to the SABC’s financial woes, namely a revised SABC Bill with a new funding model for the public broadcaster, remains stuck in limbo due to an political fight between the ...

Malatsi shared his views in a discussion with Newzroom Africa regarding speculation about a new SABC levy to fund the state broadcaster. This levy would replace the current TV licence regime ...

She said that the SABC’s submission also calls for an overhauled TV licence fee system and changes to the legislation regarding public funding strategies envisaged by TV licences. “To ensure ...

"The SABC has not increased TV licence tariffs for more than five years and, based on the 1998 level, this has resulted in a compound devaluation effect of approximately 35 percent in licence ...

The SABC and the South African government are advancing on a SABC TV licence amnesty plan that will wipe out long-overdue debts. The plan will replace the licencing scheme with a new tax in the form ...

According to executive director Stefanie Fick from Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) the SABC cannot blacklist you for not paying your TV licence as it is not a credit agreement. Fick said the ...

To cancel your TV licence, you will need a prescribed affidavit. The form needs to be completed and sent to tvlic.info@sabc.co.za as a cancellation request. The SABC says that it reserves the ...