| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 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.... |
| 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... |
| 30.04.2024 | SABC denies SSA is targeting its head of news, Moshoeshoe Monare | Moshoeshoe Monare. Image via YouTube
The SABC has denied reports that the public broadcaster’s group executive for news and current affairs, Moshoeshoe Monare, is being targeted by the State Security Agency (SSA).
Reports that Monare is bei... |
| 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 ... |
| 06.04.2022 | SABC commits to help minister implement analogue switch-off | Public broadcaster the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) says Etv and SOS/MMA are using its stance on analogue switch-off to pursue litigation against communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.
The SABC is referring to its st... |
| 11.03.2022 | Fight for free-to-air TV as analogue nears end of life | Government has not done enough to educate
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people on the ground about digital migration, ahead of South Africa’s analogue TV signal swi... |
| 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... |
