{"id":47079,"date":"2026-10-02T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47079"},"modified":"2026-10-02T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:13:42","slug":"sabc-will-cover-local-government-elections-to-the-level-its-finances-allow","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sabc-will-cover-local-government-elections-to-the-level-its-finances-allow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;SABC will cover local government elections to the level its finances allow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) Chief Executive Officer, Nomsa Chabeli, has assured Members of Parliament (MP) that the public broadcaster will cover the November 4 local government election, to the level its finances will allow.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The SABC and Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) are appearing before the Porfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies, to brief MPs on its state of readiness to cover the election.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In previous meetings, the SABC has made the committee aware of its financial constraints to cover the polls.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SA Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi has also briefed the committee that funding if sourced may not be to the extent required by SABC.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Chabeli says a lack of funding may lead to limitations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWe will cover the election irrespective of the funding outcome. However, that will determine the scale, the depth and our technical ambition because Honorable Chair, as you know, we have come in front of this body a couple of times just to say that SABC\u2019s technology bedrock has reached end of life. We are using a very archaic technology infrastructure and its resilience will come under pressure during the election period.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27003,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-47079","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"In previous meetings, the SABC has made the committee aware of its financial constraints to cover the polls.","published_date":"","news_description":"In previous meetings, the SABC has made the committee aware of its financial constraints to cover the polls.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47080,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47079\/revisions\/47080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}