Government owes the SABC over R28 million in TV licence fees

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Government owes the SABC over R28 million in TV licence fees

The South African government owes almost R60 million in TV licence and advertising fees to the SABC.

This was revealed in a written response from the Minister of the Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to Parliamentary questions posed by DA MP Phumzile van Damme.

The minister noted an amount of about R18.7 million is owed by a total of 126 provincial departments, while 20 national departments have outstanding TV licence fees balances totalling just shy of R1.7 million.

 

[Monkeyz]

Clearly the KFC account was more important

 

[mercurial]

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

Clearly the KFC account was more important

Gotta satisfy that craving.

 

[|tera|]

Boing boing boing......

 

[Binary_Bark]

 

[Creag]

The fat and lazy owe lard to the fat and lazy. Go figure!

 

[Utterly Confused]

Reminds me of the saying "The pot calling the kettle black"

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Reminds me of the saying "The pot calling the kettle black"

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[Gazg]

Go and recover that first before you harass me for R265. Muppets!

 

[Thor]

Tell me again why I must pay my TV license?

You are an idiot if you advocate for it.

 

[neoprema]

Pump that money into vaccines, or burn it. Close SABC down anyway!

 

[username and 23 others]

This forum is full of people decrying why the crooks, cheats and corrupt are rewarded for their dishonesty.
Yet, when it comes to something as a trivial as a tv licence, somehow the same does not apply?
Respect for the law and regulations and therefore the SABC gets reciprocated by the SABC showing respect for those that have paid their licences.

Is that wrong? No, it is not. it is the very essence of a country and democracy working properly.

 

[Danie_V]

Blows my mind that SABC hounds the little guys with debt collectors whilst Big Brother has not paid their own dues! Let hem first pay up before anyone else does. This is a sick situation.

 

[Utterly Confused]

Blows my mind that SABC hounds the little guys with debt collectors whilst Big Brother has not paid their own dues! Let hem first pay up before anyone else does. This is a sick situation.

YipI the cANCer leads by example and we follow.

 

[Mekon]

Oh the irony

 

[Shadowchaser1]

Really? The SABC is a SOE, which means it's run by gov. Escom and the municipalities are SOE's. How do you owe yourself money? You can't make S**T up like this. Unreal.

 

[Hemi300c]

The law only applies to non-cardes

 

[system32]

Government owes the SABC over R28 million in TV licence fees

The South African government owes almost R60 million in TV licence and advertising fees to the SABC.

This was revealed in a written response from the Minister of the Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to Parliamentary questions posed by DA MP Phumzile van Damme.

The minister noted an amount of about R18.7 million is owed by a total of 126 provincial departments, while 20 national departments have outstanding TV licence fees balances totalling just shy of R1.7 million.

Sad, but Government == Taxpayer

 

[Kola_CT]

@Geoff.D - this must hurt your head, or is this OK?