| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 27.01.2025 | 220 000 set-top boxes, 63 days: Sentech’s mission impossible? | The Sentech tower in Auckland Park, Johannesburg
State-owned broadcasting signal distribution company Sentech has a little over two months to distribute and install 220 000 set-top boxes to qualifying indigent households before the new anal... |
| 22.12.2024 | ANC, DA tensions flare over SABC Bill | Communications minister Solly Malatsi
The chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, the ANC’s Khusela Sangoni Diko, is digging in for a fight with communications minister Solly Malatsi over the latter’s decision to withdr... |
| 07.12.2024 | SABC crisis: what’s next for South Africa’s troubled public broadcaster? | Here we are again. The long-running crisis at the SABC is back on the agenda after communications minister Solly Malatsi, withdrew the SABC Bill from parliament in mid-November to first develop a funding model for inclusion.
The broadcaster... |
| 05.12.2024 | Solly Malatsi sets new deadline for analogue switch-off | Communications minister Solly Malatsi
Communications minister Solly Malatsi said on Thursday that the deadline for analogue switch-off has been moved out once again – though this time by only another three months.
The broadcasting digital m... |
| 13.11.2024 | Big political fight brewing in GNU over SABC Bill | Minister in the presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni. Image: GCIS
Communications minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to withdraw the SABC Bill is causing major ructions in the government of national unity (GNU).
Not only has his deputy and former... |
| 12.11.2024 | The SABC Bill Withdrawal: A Crisis in Broadcasting | The recent withdrawal of the SABC Bill has sent shockwaves through South Africa's media landscape. Communications Minister Solly Malatsi's decision has been met with fierce criticism, particularly from ANC MP Khusela Diko. The bill, which a... |
| 10.11.2024 | Withdrawal of bill puts SABC at risk of collapse: Diko | Khusela Diko. Image: GCIS
Khusela Diko, the ANC MP who chairs parliament’s portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies, has slammed communications minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to withdraw the contentious SABC Bill.... |
| 10.11.2024 | Solly Malatsi withdraws contentious SABC Bill | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has withdrawn the controversial SABC Bill, arguing that it does not adequately address the public broadcaster’s funding model, the Sunday Times reporte... |
| 10.10.2024 | Beware the Digital Mirage: Scams and Regulatory Responses in South Africa | In the vast landscape of social media, scams lurk like shadows. They promise treasures but deliver nothing. Recently, South Africa has seen a surge in fraudulent giveaways. Posts claim users can win unwrapped iPhones or laptops by answering... |
| 10.10.2024 | Icasa and other regulators create new top-level forum | Regulatory authorities in South Africa’s communications, media and technology sectors have banded together to create the Information, Communication Technologies and Media Regulators Forum (ICTMRF) of South Africa.
The move is designed to ke... |
| 28.06.2024 | Analogue TV switch-off ‘must not marginalise the poor’ | Media watchdogs Support Public Broadcasting (SOS) Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have told communications regulator Icasa to act in the public interest in digital broadcasting migration to avoid marginalising millions of poor S... |
| 03.06.2024 | Africa Media Monitoring April 2024: Threats to press freedom in Burkina Faso, Somalia and Togo | Burkina Faso and Sudan banned and suspended foreign media outlets, several news websites blocked
In April 2024, IPI documented at least 23 incidents of threats to press freedom in 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. State-sponsored censorsh... |
| 18.03.2024 | Regulating AI Deepfakes in 2024 is the Biggest Challenge for Countries | Deepfakes, which are highly realistic fabricated videos or images, can deceive voters, manipulate public opinion, and tarnish the reputation of political parties and politicians
More than four billion people worldwide will take part in elec... |
| 15.01.2024 | 2024 Elections: Fake news, disinformation and propaganda | Fake news and disinformation must be reported on Real411 to uphold integrity of elections. Image: IEC
Living in a fast-paced, digitally-controlled world, where social media posts, “clicks” and “likes” rule over everything, it becomes very d... |
| 19.12.2023 | Moves afoot to fight fake news ahead of 2024 poll | The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has partnered with Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms, TikTok and non-profit organisation Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) to curb disinformation ahead of South Africa’s 2024 national and prov... |
| 04.10.2023 | ‘Unspeakably outdated’: SABC Bill slammed | The draft SABC Bill has drawn howls of condemnation from industry experts, who say it is merely a rehash of existing broadcasting legislation that achieves little to help the ailing public broadcaster.
The bill, approved by cabinet last wee... |
| 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 ... |
| 06.06.2022 | How media failed the surviving children whose father allegedly poisoned | Media failed children whose father poisoned, leaving three of them dead. Photo: Digitally enhanced
Media houses have been criticised for the way they reported on the story of the father who allegedly poisoned his children and the effects th... |
| 01.07.2015 | Censorship of online content: paternalism versus parental guidance | Over the last century, as mass media expanded across the world and entered into most homes, many countries have used laws and regulation to limit children’s exposure to, for example, violence or sex.
South Africa has a set of media regulati... |
