SABC SOC LTD BILL TABLED IN PARLIAMENT

SABC SOC LTD BILL TABLED IN PARLIAMENT

• 14 October 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) SOC Ltd Bill has been tabled in Parliament. Informed by a review of the Broadcasting Act, 1999, and sub-section 11(3)(c)(iv) of the Companies Act, 2008 (criteria for state-owned company names), among other things, the Bill seeks to provide for:

• the SABC’s ‘proper governance’, and
• ‘the allocation of roles and assignment of tasks between the Minister and the board’.

This is according to a memorandum on the Bill’s objects. However, a media statement on the Cabinet meeting at which the Bill was approved referred to expectations that, once passed, enacted and operationalised, it will:

• ‘strengthen the efficiency of the operations of the public broadcaster’, and
• enable the ‘reform’ of its funding model and related TV licensing system.

Please click the links below for more information:

• Bill
• Cabinet media statement
• parliamentary papers confirming the Bill’s introduction (page 3)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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