In a landmark move, the commission has released a provisional report that exposes how the tech giants have systematically exploited the local media industry, particularly community print and digital news media
This is an edited extract from My Radio Memory: Listening to the Listener, which is edited by Robin Sewlal, with articles by 100 contributors. This one is by the journalist, editor and media scholar Guy Berger
The public broadcaster has rejected the party’s demand that it not refer to the ruling coalition as a government of national unity as an attack on media freedom
A deepfake ad ‘featuring’ Patrice Motsepe is still luring people into online trading platform
The report found that interest in politics had also dwindled among the country’s news readers
Radio has adapted to the times and, a century in, is going strong and changing lives in South Africa
Decisions about what music to ban at the SABC were inconsistent, and – what’s worse – random
Researcher delves into SABC censors’ logic – and lack thereof – during apartheid
The corporatisation of SOEs has disempowered the South African public and benefited corporate power and private finance
Among state-owned entities, the beleaguered power utility is far and away the biggest risk to the public purse
It highlights that changes need to be made in their operation, experts say
Subscription streaming services have become giants. Some will be lifted onto their shoulders and some will be crushed under their weight
Nada Wotshela is to take up the reins at the broadcaster as acting group chief executive
Having struggled to keep up with changing markets, the two entities under the department of communications are in states of financial disrepair
The SABC, ZNBC and the Mail & Guardian celebrate World Radio Day
This year’s theme, “Radio and Peace”, will showcase radio’s role in providing news and entertainment to populations even in difficult situations
Crime in South Africa has not spared journalists and their equipment, the South African National Editors’ Forum says.
Solar alternatives are the quickest alternative and with banks on board, people, institutions and businesses can ensure we are no longer left in the dark
Part four of the report will be handed to the president soon but, in court papers, Zondo said he needed six more weeks to deliver the last instalment
PSL match attendance was low even before the pandemic. And the decline in South Africans’ appetite for football seems to have spilled over to television viewership as well
Listeners want Hawks to probe the public broadcaster for quashing coverage of the Venda king’s role in the cash scandal
If South Africa is moving from being a dominant-party system to a more vibrant, multiparty democracy, as these elections indicate, then coalitions are going to have to become the norm
As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality
Veteran broadcaster Noxolo Grootboom talks to Denvor de Wee about her childhood in the rural Eastern Cape, the day her neighbour Chris Hani was murdered and the secret to her ageless beauty
The local music industry can’t place the blame for its current state solely on the Covid-19 pandemic; it’s been in a mess for a while
Siya is an immeasurable loss to South Africa’s media landscape, but he will be best remembered for his countless acts of kindness
Covid-19 has forced newsrooms to find new business models, but the public has turned to the news more in the last year
Almost R50-million of taxpayers’ money has been invested but the station is yet to broadcast a single show
The SABC is simply too important to South Africa’s democracy for it to be gutted: we cannot allow it to die
Three unions say the selection process for workers to be sacked was “flawed” and question why the cash-strapped public broadcaster hired an external marketing agency
At a portfolio committee meeting on Tuesday, developing a sustainable funding model for the SABC was top of the agenda