Earlier this month, Chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies Khusela Diko, warned that the Public Broadcaster’s signal could be switched off before the end of the year. This came after Sentech, the state-owned company responsible for transmitting the SABC’s signal, threatened to cut off services due to the broadcaster’s ballooning debt of over $57-million compelling Malatsi to intervene. Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting and Artificial Intelligence for Africa Summit in Cape Town, Malatsi told delegates that connectivity is not a privilege but a human right.
” I am of the belief that the SABC has the right leadership it’s been through a difficult past and there has been a transition and fairness that were need to recognise and that it has obligations and those obligations must be endeavoured to be met right so that the service providers and the service obligations it has are met we can have certainty of its broadcast,” Malatsi said.
–Reuters–
