South African Broadcasting Corporation board chairperson Kanyi Mkhonza resigned following a board meeting on Thursday.
The SABC has laid a charge of ”stolen property” after the M&G Online posted an episode of Special Assignment on political satire.
A documentary on political satire has been pulled — for the second time — by the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
The tasks involved in restoring the SABC as a credible public broadcaster are huge and urgently need to be taken up by Parliament.
A coalition of television workers will protest next week against the money crisis at the SABC, brought about by its ”arrogant” management.
Consultancies should also be terminated, the coalition says. The SABC’s annual report last year said these cost the broadcaster R200-million.
The ANC played no part in the decision to end the contract of SABC news head Snuki Zikalala, the ruling party’s treasurer general Mathews Phosa said.
Cope accused the SABC of sabotage and ”blatant bias” following the broadcaster’s blackout on Sunday of the party’s final election rally in Polokwane.
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?
The SABC will appear before the Complaints and Compliance Committee of the Independent Communications Authority of SA, the authority said on Tuesday.
A forensic report leaked to the M&G shows the SABC board is split into two camps, fighting over political control and editorial independence.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is not insolvent, its acting group chief executive, Gab Mampone, said on Thursday.
The SABC has been reprimanded for an unbalanced report creating the impression that only the security forces committed atrocities during apartheid.
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago denied a R700-millon figure but said: "We are not prepared to engage further on this matter."
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/ 13 February 2009
The contentious Broadcasting Amendment Bill has been amended after President Kgalema Motlanthe refused to sign it into law.
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/ 9 February 2009
President Kgalema Motlanthe has sent the contentious Broadcasting Amendment Bill back to the National Assembly unsigned.
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/ 23 January 2009
Dali Mpofu intends challenging what he considers his ”unilateral dismissal” as the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s group executive.
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/ 15 January 2009
ANC chief whip Nyamezeli Booi is pressing ahead with plans to meet President Kgalema Motlanthe to clarify why he has yet to sign the so-called SABC Bi
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/ 11 December 2008
Arguments about terms of trade and commissioning procedures should now become a thing of the past.
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/ 21 November 2008
Claims that the SABC had given ANC president Jacob Zuma too much air time have been dismissed by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA.
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/ 4 November 2008
The SABC came in for stick from various quarters on Tuesday, including from the ANC, for alleged political bias in its news coverage.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African Broadcasting Corporation released its annual report and financial results earlier this month, raising more questions than answers.
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/ 16 October 2008
DA leader Helen Zille has written to the SABC requesting the broadcaster give the opposition the same platform afforded to Jacob Zuma.
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/ 10 October 2008
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s 2008 operating profit has dropped from last year’s R182,8-million to R111,3-million.
For the first time in South Africa, political parties could soon be flighting adverts on television — but not if the SABC has its way.
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/ 17 September 2008
The Johannesburg High Court has dismissed SABC group CEO Dali Mpofu’s application to have his suspension set aside.
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/ 9 September 2008
Demystifying science and technology for SA’s youth through sport and recreation is the objective of a Science and Technology in Sport conference.
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/ 4 September 2008
High on the Highway Africa agenda will be debates on how to deepen the democratisation role of the media.
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/ 1 September 2008
SABC reporters are not assigned to stories on the basis of their political allegiance, the national broadcaster said on Monday.
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.
The new system is expected to bring benefits such as free extra channels as well as better quality, writes Lloyd Gedye.