9 October 2025, The Braodcast Media
He later confirmed a new plan to extend the deadline to 31 March 2025, but the Pretoria High Court also blocked this just before its implementation. Legal action was taken by eMedia, Media Monitoring Africa, and the SOS Coalition, which argued that the swift switch-off would deprive underprivileged households of vital access due to delays in distributing state-subsidised set-top boxes necessary for receiving DTT signals.