The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and South African Screen Federation (SASFED) submission to the Broadcasting Regulatory Review at the ICASA Conference, 20-21 February 2012, focuses on what is needed of the Broadcasting Regulatory Environment.
OUR SABC is an SOS initiative. It is a newsletter that tables and debates Public broadcasting issues. The newsletter hopes to not only encourage debate but create a better and more effective public broadcasting environment in South Africa and Africa.
What is on the table this week?
• The new SABC GCEO: who is she and why HER!
• Changing Faces: there is a new CFO at the SABC
• Operations at the SABC, who is going to be the next COO of the SABC?
• “Smoking the peace pipe”…. Mwasa and the SABC reconcile
• Finances, FINANCES, finances: Is the SABC ever going to be financially stable!
• The independent broadcasting regulatory review…is this not placing the ‘cart before the horse’?
For more on these issues read our Newsletter
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition welcomes the appointment of the new SABC Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Gugu Duda, and views the appointment as a critical one. The Coalition is however concerned that the SABC board is not driving the appointments at the public broadcaster.
The Minister of Communications, Ms Dina Pule, became aware of the process that the SABC intended to follow to appoint a Chief Operating Officer for the broadcaster. The Minister immediately requested the Board to suspend the current search and to follow a normal and wider executive appointment process.
Minister of Communications Dina Pule said that state-owned signal distributor Sentech is expected to cover more than 60% of South Africa’s population for digital terrestrial television (DTT).
