1 April 2025, The Media Online, Michael Markovitz
On 27 March 2025, the High Court in Pretoria granted interim relief to e.tv, Media Monitoring Africa, and the SOS Coalition, suspending the government’s plan to switch off analogue television on 31 March.
It’s the second time South Africa’s courts have blocked a premature analogue switch-off. The judgment doesn’t just pause a date. It confirms a pattern of mismanagement, policy drift and legal overreach that has haunted South Africa’s digital migration for more than a decade.