JOHANNESBURG 18th October 2018 – International advocacy organisation Global Citizen today announced that DStv, SABC, and Viacom’s MTV International will be the broadcast partners for the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, a free-ticketed event, which will take place on Sunday, 2 December 2018 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. The live broadcast will be transmitted in over 180 countries across six continents.

DStv will broadcast the event live to all its customers throughout South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. It will also carry the responsibility to film the event and provide the live broadcast to the SABC and other international broadcast partners who will extend the reach world-wide.

Johannesburg – Saturday, 13 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) management met with organised labour on Friday 12 October 2018 to initiate the joint consensus seeking process in terms of section 189 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA).

Following this joint consensus seeking meeting it was agreed that the LRA’s section 189 notice will be put in abeyance until further details as requested by organised labour, are made available. This was agreed to in order to take the joint consensus seeking process forward. This was also to ensure that the parties work together in finding an amicable solution, in an attempt to avoid and/or minimize any possible retrenchments as envisaged in terms of section 189 of the LRA.

SABC1 will screen the 13^th annual SATMA Awards on Sunday, 14 October 2018, at 21h00. The 2018 traditional awards ceremony was held under the theme ‘Embrace your Heritage’ on Saturday, 29 September 2018 at the Mmabatho Convention Centre in Mahikeng (Bokone-Bophirima Province).

SABC 1 enjoys a long-standing relationship with the SATMAS as a media partner to these prestigious awards ceremony spanning over 13 years.

One of the main attractions to this years’ event was the honouring of the following legends: Lasting Legacy – Simon Senna; Sol Plaatjie; King Hintsa, and Rex Rabanye. The Lifetime Achievement went to Mme Paulne Thisazana and Khathide Ngobe.

SABC 1 viewers will be treated to spectacular live performances including hip hop giants: HHP and Khuli Chana; Destruction Boyz; Abathandwa, Mafikizolo, Phuzukhemisi and many more.

Johannesburg – Thursday, 11 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has noted the statement by the South African Football Association (SAFA), announcing that all future international football matches involving the national teams, Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana will not be broadcast on SABC platforms.

The SABC would like to place on record that it made a commercially viable offer that would enable the SABC to deliver football matches to South African audiences on SABC platforms and this offer was rejected by SAFA. This follows the expiry of the previous contract between SAFA and the SABC. On the previous contract there were obligations and milestones which the SABC has met, including the payment milestones of that contract, albeit late given the SABC’s dire financial situation. In this regard, the SABC made full and final payment on the agreement as agreed with SAFA.

Johannesburg –Tuesday, 09 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has noted media reports alleging in-fighting between Ukhozi FM management. The allegations further claim that this in-fighting has destabilised operations and affected staff morale at the station.

The SABC would like to place on record that these allegations are untrue and malicious with the intent to derail management’s focus on key and strategic issues of the station.

Johannesburg –Monday, 08 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has teamed up with a majority black-owned company, Biza Telecoms (Pty) Ltd (Biza Telecoms), which has developed a social networking service called Chomi (“friend”).

The SABC’s African Language Services (ALS) stations are using the Chomi social network to encourage their listeners to keep in touch and participate in programming, in the broadcast language of the respective radio stations.

Johannesburg, Friday, 05 October 2017 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), is saddened to learn of the passing of Ms. Rowena Baird, after battling with cancer for a long time. Ms. Baird started her broadcasting career in the mid 1980’s at Radio BOP. She spent time at a variety of radio stations over the years, including stints at Radio 2000, Channel Africa and Metro FM.

Ms. Baird was a seasoned and versatile broadcaster, with experience which includes presenting news, talk shows, magazine, current affairs and music programmes.  Ms. Baird also presented a series of voter education programmes on television and was a co-presenter of The Breakfast Club on SABC television in the late 1990’s.

Johannesburg, Thursday, 04 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has noted the Democratic Alliance’s count down for the SABC to reveal its Top Management’s salaries. Salaries of the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operations Officer (COO)  are recorded in the Annual Results of the corporation and the figures that the DA is requesting will be contained in the 2018/19 Annual Results. However the SABC wishes to put on record that the total current salaries of these Executive Directors have been significantly reduced.

Johannesburg, Wednesday, 03 October 2018 – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is delighted to announce that Redi Tlhabi is joining SABC News. Thlabi is set to host a new Current Affairs show named Unfiltered, launching on Sunday, 07 October 2018 at 20:30, on the SABC News Channel and SABC 3. This is part of SABC’s efforts to attract top talent to enhance and strengthen audience experience, in line with its turnaround plan.

Tlhabi, who is no stranger to the SABC, brings immense experience and knowledge in the television news domain, including working with international broadcasting platforms such as Aljazeera and BBC World News. She is a distinguished broadcast journalist, columnist and author.