WGSA MAG Issue 15 (July 2013) | Page 86

Yunus Carrim

interim board was appointed, and how the department can offer more assistance to the SABC to become more stable... and more effective,” Carrim said in a statement.

In April, President Jacob Zuma approved the interim board, which was installed after the resignations of most of its members in March, and its eventual dissolution by Parliament.

Their departure came after a reported clash between previous chairman Ben Ngubane and the board over the tenure of previous acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng.

Carrim said the board and management had agreed to settle outstanding problems related to digital migration, and to fill senior management posts urgently. Carrim replaced Communication Minister Dina Pule, who was one of three ministers fired by Zuma.

TV licence price to increase by SAPA source IOL NEWS

TELEVISION licence fees will rise in September, the SABC said.

“ The annual fee for a domestic, business, dealer and lessor licence will increase by R15 from R250 to R265,” spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement.

“ This equals an increase of only R1.25 per month,” he said.

He said the communications minister had approved a six percent increase in TV licences with effect from September 1.

Concessionary TV licences- granted to those over 70 and to receivers of social grants from the state- would rise by R4 to R74 a year.

This was the fourth tariff increase the SABC had been granted the past 14 years. The last one was in 2009.

SABC wants to halt truth telling doccie by STAFF REPORTER source CHANNEL24

THE SABC has turned to court to prevent a documentary it commissioned being broadcast, The Star newspaper reported.

The documentary contained claims of government inaction in recovering billions of Rand in public money allegedly misappropriated by apartheid-era bankers, politicians, and officials.

Freelance journalist Sylvia Vollenhoven created the documentary Project Spear for a series Truth be Told, after being commissioned by the SABC in 2011.

Now the SABC has lodged an application in the High Court in Johannesburg to obtain certain material to which it owned copyright, and to prevent the documentary being broadcast or screened in any way.

Vollenhoven, her production company Vollenhoven and Appollis Independent, and Noseweek magazine- which initially carried the story- are the respondents.

Bloomberg TV back after complaints by THINUS FERREIRA source CHANNEL24

BLOOMBERG Television is set to return to MultiChoice’ s DStv satellite pay-TV platform as its own stand-alone TV channel less than three weeks after Bloomberg Television was ended on DStv and folded into the newly relaunched Business Day Television with daily programming block on that channel.

According to various sources who spoke on the

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