Public outcry on new SABC TV licensing mandate will result in march to the SABC this week to hand over a petition. SABC TVlicence Change
A group of protesters will this week descend on the SABC’s headquarters in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, to take a stand against the extension of TV licensing fees to PCs and monitors.
The SABC in late January updated its TV licence mandate, to define a TV set as any device that can receive a broadcast signal, for which South Africans now have to pay a R265 annual fee., the SABC defines a TV as: “Any device designed or adapted to be capable of receiving a broadcast television signal. That includes a personal computer fitted with a TV tuner card, or a video-cassette recorder connected to a monitor or TV screen.
The group planning to march this week forms part of the over 38 000 people who signed an online petition onIn the petition, the author, named Rupert Meyer, states he and fellow protesters vehemently oppose paying TV licences for computer devices and monitors. “The SABC is now demanding that South Africans pay TV licence fees for PCs and computer monitors, even if they are not using those devices to watch TV. This is a ludicrous and a nefarious attempt to further exploit South Africans and to profit off other media providers’ backs. We will be handing over this petition to the SABC this week,” it says.
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