Steven Hill thinks “digital operating permits” could be the key to reining in tech giants and protecting their users.
The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she…
Here’s an Mbeki-era legacy which needs a Zuma-type plan to fix. The legacy is SABC International.
Right now the SABC is hogging bandwidth about priorities for the new Minister of Communications, Siphiwe Nyanda.
Young Communist League Castro Ngobese told the crowd: ”Down with the SABC board of boyfriends and girlfriends!”
Last week the M&G reported that the estimated amount owed by the broadcaster to independent producers is nearing the R60-million mark.
The tasks involved in restoring the SABC as a credible public broadcaster are huge and urgently need to be taken up by Parliament.
Consultancies should also be terminated, the coalition says. The SABC’s annual report last year said these cost the broadcaster R200-million.
The SABC is out of cash and is sitting on a deficit of almost R800-million. The public broadcaster is also seeking a bail-out of R1.5-billion.
The SABC undertook to make good millions of rands of debts owed to companies and individual members of the television production industry.
A bail-out by government seems the only solution, but what’s to stop the SABC sliding into the deep red once again?
Two senior SABC executives have been placed on special leave pending an investigation arising from allegations made by staff to top management.
Bantu Holomisa has complained to the AU that actions of the ANC and the government are breaking the fundamental principles of the union.
Peter Kwele has been appointed as the new head of the SABC’s crucial 2010 project unit, according to the public broadcaster.
Led David: Pay-TV — be it terrestrial or satellite — is to me now what it was to my parents. Excessive. Exclusive. Bourgeois.
There are cheering signs of a resurgent interest and excitement among ordinary people, and next year could see the most absorbing elections since ’94.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation released its annual report and financial results earlier this month, raising more questions than answers.
Parliament wants to fire the existing SABC board, while the president and minister back the body.
After 16 years the SABC is back where it began. A veteran of the campaign to democratise the SABC writes about a new campaign to free the airwaves.
