| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.03.2025 | South Africa's Digital Migration Crisis: A Looming Blackout | In the heart of South Africa, a storm brews over the digital migration project. The transition from analogue to digital television has become a quagmire, ensnaring millions in uncertainty. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has stepp... |
| 27.03.2025 | High court derails analogue switch-off | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
The high court in Pretoria has ruled in favour of broadcaster e.tv in its bid to stop communications minister Solly Malatsi from switching off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March.
Th... |
| 27.03.2025 | Outa wants probe into botched digital migration project | The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is getting involved in South Africa’s long-running and disastrous migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television.
The civil society lobby group wants parliament to launch an investigation... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Battle for the Airwaves: E.tv vs. Solly Malatsi | In the heart of Pretoria, a legal storm brews. E.tv, a prominent South African broadcaster, has taken communications minister Solly Malatsi to court. The issue? The looming deadline for the analogue television switch-off set for March 31, 2... |
| 19.03.2025 | Warning of TV blackout for millions in South Africa | Media industry lobby groups Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition have accused communications minister Solly Malatsi of “lowballing” estimates of the number of South Africans who will be adversely a... |
| 19.03.2025 | Fireworks in court as e.tv is accused of ulterior motives | Fireworks erupted at the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday as the standoff between e.tv and communications minister Solly Malatsi over analogue television switch-off at the end of this month continues.
The legal team representing Malatsi ... |
| 18.03.2025 | Court battle over analogue TV switch-off begins | The legal action brought by e.tv against communications minister Solly Malatsi, in which the broadcaster is contending the 31 March 2025 deadline for analogue televisions switch-off, has kicked off at the high court in Pretoria.
E.tv in Jan... |
| 06.03.2025 | The Digital Dilemma: South Africa's Struggle with State IT and Postal Services | In the heart of South Africa's governance, two entities stand as symbols of inefficiency: the South African Post Office and the State IT Agency (Sita). Both are trapped in a web of bureaucracy, financial strain, and political maneuvering. T... |
| 04.03.2025 | Here is a radical idea: let go of the Post Office | The South African Post Office is deadweight threatening to overburden an already-stretched national fiscus.
Having been in business rescue since July 2023, and now on the verge of collapse, the decision to let go of the Post Office represen... |
| 30.01.2025 | The Digital Dilemma: South Africa's Race Against Time in TV Migration | In South Africa, the clock is ticking. The analogue switch-off deadline looms large, set for March 31, 2025. This date is not just a number; it represents a potential crisis for millions. The government’s push for digital migration is like ... |
| 28.01.2025 | E.tv drags Solly Malatsi to court over March digital TV deadline | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
South Africa may have a new minister of communications, the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Malatsi, but the latest development in the digital TV migration saga still feels a bit like Groundhog... |
| 12.12.2024 | The Evolving Landscape of South African Television in 2024 | In 2024, South Africa's television scene is a vibrant tapestry woven with soap operas, sports, and streaming services. The Broadcast Research Council (BRC) reveals that traditional TV still reigns supreme, but the winds of change are blowin... |
| 09.12.2024 | South Africa’s most watched TV shows in 2024 | South Africans love their soapies. Data collated from the Broadcast Research Council’s (BRC’s) primetime viewership statistics show that soap operas dominated primetime viewership across the SABC channels, e.tv and DStv in 2024, with news a... |
| 25.11.2024 | South Africa’s most-watched television channel | E.tv, the free-to-air television channel owned by eMedia Holdings and launched in the late 1990s as South Africa’s first commercial free-to-air broadcaster, is now the most popular television channel in South Africa.
That claim is contained... |
| 25.11.2024 | Fight over MultiChoice, SABC ‘notifiable merger’ heads to tribunal | MultiChoice will on Tuesday appear before the Competition Tribunal to appeal a Competition Commission finding that a controversial 2013 channel distribution deal with the SABC constituted a “notifiable merger”, meaning the two broadcasters ... |
| 31.07.2024 | eMedia to litigate in fight over DStv channels | eMedia Holdings, parent company of e.tv and Openview, has said it intends to pursue litigation against MultiChoice over the latter’s attempt to remove four eMedia channels from DStv.
The four channels in question – eExtra, eMovies Extra, eM... |
| 30.07.2024 | eMedia outlines plans for streamer eVOD | eMedia Holdings, the parent of e.tv and Openview, has disclosed viewer adoption figures for its eVOD streaming service, which it launched three years ago.
In eMedia’s annual report for the 2024 financial year, published on Monday, the group... |
| 18.07.2024 | Malatsi to meet with treasury over smartphone taxes | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi plans to meet with national treasury to discuss the removal of smartphones, and particularly 4G devices, from the “luxury goods” classification which a... |
| 09.07.2024 | As South Africa dawdles on DTT, television technology moves on | South Africa is a laggard in television broadcasting technology. One of the consequences of long delays in the migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT) is that broadcasters risk getting stuck in archaic business models that do make... |
| 07.07.2024 | Nomvelo Makhanya opens up about life after Scandal | Nomvelo Makhanya. Image: Instagram @_mvelomakhanya
South African actress Nomvelo Makhanya is trending against the backdrop of her recent interview. No doubt Nomvelo Makhanya had her shot to fame as a child star when she joined the star-stud... |
| 29.05.2024 | Decline in TV viewership: Are South Africans ditching their screens? | SA shows a decline in TV viewership. Image by Huỳnh Đạt/Pexels
The latest data from the Marketing Research Foundation shows a significant decline in TV viewership in South Africa, showing that South Africans are either not watching as much ... |
| 23.05.2024 | eMedia’s legal costs climb as it battles MultiChoice | eMedia Holdings said on Thursday that its legal fees rose sharply in the year ended 31 March 2024 as it battled rival, DStv parent MultiChoice Group, on multiple fronts.
Legal costs rose by R8.8-million in 2024 compared to the previous fina... |
| 31.07.2023 | South Africa’s big TV migration day is here | State-owned Sentech will at midnight on Monday move TV broadcasters out of the “digital dividend” frequency bands, freeing them up for telecommunications – and those still watching terrestrial television are directly impacted.
In June, comm... |
| 24.02.2023 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 24 February 2023 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday, 24 February 2023 Photos: GoogleMaps/Stock
We’ve got the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Friday, 24 February 2023.
South African Police Service (SAPS) spokesperson... |
| 23.02.2023 | WATCH: De Ruyter gave bombshell interview ‘soon after’ cyanide poisoning | Eskom immediately let go of de Ruyter after a bombshell interview aired on ‘My Guest Tonight with Annika Larsen’ on Tuesday. Image: @AnnikaLarsen1.
Axed Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter gave the bombshell interview that seemingly saw him removed f... |
| 23.02.2023 | André de Ruyter: Will he name and shame the corrupt high-level politician? | Eskom immediately let go of de Ruyter after a bombshell interview aired on ‘My Guest Tonight with Annika Larsen’ on Tuesday. Image: @AnnikaLarsen1.
South Africa is holding its breath to hear who André de Ruyter names as the high-level polit... |
| 23.02.2023 | The DA thanks André de Ruyter for his service | ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says former Eskom CEO Andre De Ruyter must bring the evidence of political corruption. Image: Twitter/@AnnikaLarsen1
The Democratic Alliance (DA) sincerely thanks former Eskom chief André de Ruyter for h... |
| 23.02.2023 | Mbalula challenged De Ruyter to bring evidence of corruption | ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter mut present the evidence. Image: Flickr
The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has labelled former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter as a ‘nays... |
| 22.02.2023 | WATCH: De Ruyter says evidence suggests Eskom is a ‘feeding trough’ for the ANC | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday, 23 February 2023. Image: Piqsels
Outgoing Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter sat down for an interview with eTV journalist Annika Larsen and spoke frankly about government interference at th... |
| 01.07.2022 | Digital migration: how poor South Africans will be affected. | Digital migration: how poor South Africans will be affected: Image: Adobe stock
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government’s plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June. The ... |
| 30.06.2022 | South Africa: Digital Migration - Court Delay Upholds Information Rights of Poor South Africans | South Africa's Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government's plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June. The decision upholds the right to information, which poor South Africans would have ... |
| 13.05.2019 | Tech allows communities to act together | Local non-governmental organisation (NGO) Grassroot is making use of technology to enable participatory democracy in SA.
Founded in 2015, Grassroot says it creates solutions that enable communities and individuals to act together with more ... |
| 03.05.2016 | Africa may have just gotten its first mainstream Superhero TV show | It’s named Jongo, and it’s said to be Africa’s first Superhero TV show. The media space has been rife with western interpretations of decidedly non-western stories. Scarlett Johansson’s casting in Ghost In The Shell, a very Japanese story a... |
| 24.04.2013 | Ten African Multimillionaires You've Never Heard Of | Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch |
