OPINION | The SABC is giving me just 5 days to pay my TV Licence
– with the South African public broadcaster saying it doesn't have to give anyone 30 days notice that their TV licence must be paid.
That leaves just five days to pay before getting slapped with additional late fee penalties if any payment occurs after 31 August. The SABC doesn't send other emails to consumers or use the SABC TV Licence email database to communicate other messages during the rest of the year, for instance, around its content or how licence money was spent, that would make licence-payers more amenable to pay their annual fee when the time comes.
"The SABC takes into account key regulations when the corporation issues the renewal notices to customers. Regulation 24 of the TV Licence regulations published in the Government Gazette No 25959 of 28 January 2004 requires the SABC to send renewal notices to licence holders." Only 24% are still paying, with the rate that keeps declining as the country's overall TV watching universe expands.
MultiChoice as a private pay-TV operator is vehemently against the plan and says it will never do this or allow it to happen. Earlier this year, Calvo Mawela, MultiChoice Group CEO, said that MultiChoice"can't be collecting for the SABC".
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