21 January 2025, Daniel Puchert, MyBroadBand
This is according to Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird, who told 702 that the SABC’s new revenue stream must be generated from a public source.
“The money required to sustain the SABC will need to come from some form of public funding,” Bird said.
“Communication Minister Solly Malatsi’s options will include some form of public-commercial model.”
Malatsi has said that his department is developing a new funding model for the SABC.
While TV licence delinquency has been identified as one of the root causes of the broadcaster’s financial demise, with only 13% of South Africans currently paying the tax, Bird said several other factors have also contributed to this.