Cash-strapped SABC continues to pay TV licence debt collectors

[Daniel Puchert]

TV licence problem for the SABC

More South Africans avoid paying the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) TV licence fees, but the SABC continues to pay lawyers and debt collectors to get holders to pay.

Moreover, the only chance of a change in the funding scheme for the public broadcaster will come within three years of the proposed SABC Bill being passed as it is written now. It is currently before Parliament.

 

[ThinkCentre]

You can have a debit order for R28 a month to pay your TV license.

 

[Fuzzbox]

SABC economics.
No money coming in.
Pleanty money to pay for corrupt tenders to collect money.

And you wonder why they make a loss every year.

 

[ISP cash cow]

However, it is calling for changes to the public broadcaster’s funding model and called on the SABC and the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies to suggest funding options before ParliamParliamentnsideration.

 

[porchrat]

You can have a debit order for R28 a month to pay your TV license.

You could have a debit order in place to pay the local organised crime group for protection too.

Because it's easy doesn't mean it's right.

Let the SABC die.

 

[MagNorthDigital]

I'll consider getting a tv license, when they put a law in place that you need a license to have a child.

 

[deweyzeph]

You can have a debit order for R28 a month to pay your TV license.

People don't refuse to pay their TV license because it's too expensive. They refuse to pay because it's the right thing to do.

 

[LazyLion]

If they link it to other licences then they will have a war on their hands...

 

[deweyzeph]

If they link it to other licences then they will have a war on their hands...

It's a completely unworkable idea. Firstly, it would only affect people who were silly enough to buy a TV license and have their details in the license database in the first place. Secondly, the obligation to have a license falls on a household, not an individual person, so how do you work out who to punish for not having a license? It's already a nightmare, for example, when 2 people with existing TV licenses move in together and therefore only need one TV license. How can you punish the other person who stops paying their TV license because it's impossible to cancel or merge TV licenses?

 

[Gazg]

Very good luck with that........lol

 

[The Trutherizer]

I call it a sanity tax. Mental protection money.
They don't earn it through me watching their content. Not for the last 20 years or so. I repeat... 20 years. I pay it so that their SMS goons will stop making my phone chirp my ears off.

Organized crime? Sure. Would normally resist. But what do? - State sanctioned.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

SABC - stupidity abounds

 

[ProfA]

SABC - stupidity abounds

Fixed

 

[axsis]

The barrage of debt collector smses is enough to (almost) make you want to pay it lol.

People don't refuse to pay their TV license because it's too expensive. They refuse to pay because it's the right thing to do.

 

[ProfA]

The barrage of debt collector smses is enough to (almost) make you want to pay it lol.

Really? Can't block numbers on your phone? Cant install spam detection app? Can't just hang up?

Please PM me your number. I know of some made up debt you need to pay.

 

[Hemi300c]

Debt R7500
Collection Agency Fee R15000

Makes sense as the total cost is only R22500 to SABC

/s

 

[Bad Ballie]

The government is a joke, a poor one in bad taste but still a joke. I thinking I was doing the right thing paid for a TV license for a year that I was using a family members TV while they were overseas, at the end of the year once the TV was returned, I tried to cancel the license, it eventually took 4 years for the Traitorous NP to finally cancel the license. Fast forward to 1995 and suddenly under the new traitors suddenly my license was revived and I have not been able to cancel it since. Bottom line is I will not pay now or at any time in the future and good luck trying to arrest me.

 

[Kosmik]

Lots of debt agencies work on commission, surely they aren't paying them over and above?

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

The government is a joke, a poor one in bad taste but still a joke. I thinking I was doing the right thing paid for a TV license for a year that I was using a family members TV while they were overseas, at the end of the year once the TV was returned, I tried to cancel the license, it eventually took 4 years for the Traitorous NP to finally cancel the license. Fast forward to 1995 and suddenly under the new traitors suddenly my license was revived and I have not been able to cancel it since. Bottom line is I will not pay now or at any time in the future and good like trying to arrest me.

The idiots, still trying yo collect from a poor soul who died 22 years ago, and would be 117 this year.

 

[Bad Ballie]

I call it a sanity tax. Mental protection money.
They don't earn it through me watching their content. Not for the last 20 years or so. I repeat... 20 years. I pay it so that their SMS goons will stop making my phone chirp my ears off.

Organized crime? Sure. Would normally resist. But what do? - State sanctioned.

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Why does the idea of fighting against a corrupt regime worry you,... the best thing that could happen to this country is the end of the ANC and its cronies. Also use TrueCalller,... or do you live on the edge answering calls from numbers you do not know.