17 February 2025, Daniel Puchert, MyBroadBand
Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird recently said in an interview that the SABC’s dire financial position could be linked to a failure to revise its funding model 15 to 20 years ago.
Bird points out that the funding model intended to generate the most revenue is the TV licence, which is a tax South Africans are required to pay to own a TV.
This is laid out in the Broadcasting Act of 1999 to fund the SABC’s social mandate of making its services available in all official languages.