Government's plan to force everyone with a smartphone or tablet to pay a TV licence

[Jamie McKane]

Government's plan to force everyone with a smartphone or tablet to pay a TV licence

Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has doubled down on the government’s plan to charge people with computers, smartphones, and tablets TV licence fees.

This was part of a response from Ndabeni-Abrahams to a question from the DA deputy chief whip in the National Assembly, Michael Waters.

Waters asked the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies:

 

[Cray]

She is insane.

 

[Rabobi]

Let me get right on that

 

[TheChamp]

Kahle Ndabeni Abrahams, what are you saying now?

 

[BBSA]

Good luck with that

 

[Gerry]

perfect content for a Leon Schuster movie..

 

[HowTo]

Good luck with that.

 

[Nemoneiros]

Government's plan to force everyone with a smartphone to pay a TV licence

Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has doubled down on the government’s plan to charge people with computers, smartphones, and tablets TV licence fees.

This was part of a response from Ndabeni-Abrahams to a question from the DA deputy chief whip in the National Assembly, Michael Waters.

Waters asked the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies:

Still... Southern African pussies will bend over and pay up

 

[yebocan]

aaai --- seriously? wtf comes up with these ideas? this is the opposite side of the coin, ....when marketing comes up with a dumb racially insensitive idea and ploughs right ahead with it, due to lack of diversity in their mist....our government have some pretty dumb advisors.

 

[friedpiggy]

She can take a long leisurely stroll off a very short pier with that idea. not a chance in hades will I be paying a tv extortion fee for a smartphone.

 

[rietrot]

I already have one family member who owns a lot of tvs.

I guess they'll now also be called on if I need a new cellphone.

 

[Kawak]

The sole reason is because SABC must continue to waste even more money.

It is ludicrous that we pay for a service we don't use, if one can ask the SABC to remove the tuner in a TV thereby not pay a licensed fee, how can a license for a phone be justified? TV license must be made a tax, that's the only way it can have a chance at standing up to legal challenges.

 

[Z3120]

Taxation is already applied > 1x on all these items from importation, local sales, on device purchases / VAT to local, International companies & lastly income tax >=2

If you are unable to succeed with that exorbitant & extortionary hand out....nothing will solve the issue as clearly fiat is not the issue & seems to be something else.

 

[Ivan Leon]

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

They cannot get people to pay a TV lisence currently. What hope have they of being able to collect the new version thereof?

 

[requiem]

They cannot get people to pay a TV lisence currently. What hope have they of being able to collect the new version thereof?

They'll simply insist that the cell phone providers take it out of your airtime it you dont have a tv license.

 

[markings]

One can already pay the TV license on a monthly basis. So the monthly subscription argument is redundant.
A dealer can already check on the database whether someone has a TV license. So that isn't a problem either. More difficult would be that a license is per household. How does one check easily whether a person belongs to a licensed household?

 

[eg2505]

They'll simply insist that the cell phone providers take it out of your airtime it you dont have a tv license.

soon enough they will be roadblocks where show us a TV license, or get your phone confiscated.

all it is is a tax grab,

 

[Rabobi]

soon enough they will be roadblocks where show us a TV license, or get your phone confiscated.

all it is is a tax grab,

The word you are looking for is thievery

 

[eg2505]

The word you are looking for is thievery

problem is, majority voted for this thievery and incompetence,
so complain to them for voting them into power.