Only 24% of South Africans are paying their TV licences

[Fjorko]

I rest my case :

 

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[SAguy]

Source: https://www.sabc.co.za/sabc/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SABC_AR_2019_.pdf
From page 130:
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If we take the billed value (3 137 336) divided by the license fee (R265), then we get to 11 839 persons billed.
Maybe I'm missing something?

The total value billed is R3 137 336 000

 

[D tj]

Maths Literacy:
"If we take the billed value (3 137 336) divided by the license fee (R265), then we get to 11 839 persons billed.
Maybe I'm missing something?"
Nod your best moment mathematically: See the top of the chart: directly below 2019.... R'000
It is not 3 137 336, but actually 3 1373 36 000.

 

[SAguy]

Maths Literacy:
"If we take the billed value (3 137 336) divided by the license fee (R265), then we get to 11 839 persons billed.
Maybe I'm missing something?"
Nod your best moment mathematically: See the top of the chart: directly below 2019.... R'000
It is not 3 137 336, but actually 3 1373 36 000.

Nothing wrong with @Nod's math... just didn't read the financial statement correctly.

 

[D tj]

True!

 

[OCP]

24% too many....

 

[Swa]

SABC, sees quality programming and paying artists as fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

 

[Hackson]

I'd be surprised if more than 24% of their employees paid TV licence.

 

[Lupus]

And how does that compare to the percentage of South Africans actually watching SABC content?

There's probably far more who watch it, but don't pay a license.

 

[j4ck455]

I'd be surprised if more than 24% of their employees paid TV licence.

I'd be surprised if any SABC employees, including SABC executives, and the whole of the ANC, and all government employees, have ever paid their TV licence.

 

[PAYBACK]

And I bet 95% of those people are white and don't even watch SABC yet they pay to keep a ****ing ANC propaganda machine going. **** them, they can go pound sand!

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

I kinda wish there was a way they could cut access to SABC for non payment. The laughter that would cause when they threaten it would be epic.

some idiots actually think that's a credible threat, just yesterday I heard a voice note on CapeTalk where a very upset tannie was saying exactly that: oh these inconsiderate evil non-payers, they should have a system similar to DSTV so they can cut them off if they don't pay

completely oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of non-payers simply don't watch that SABC crap in the first place and would fall over from laughter if they were threatened with being cut off from it

 

[Willie Trombone]

Rubbish
Most of those people have left the country for good

Viva ANC

And the rest have died.

 

[Thor]

24% is MUCH higher than I anticipated.

All South Africans need to work together to get that closer to 5%.

Supporting the SABC is supporting corruption.

 

[system32]

FTFY, dont trust a single stat these fools come out with.

Assuming that there are at least a few million foreigners in SA, that leaves about 55 million South Africans, 24% of that is 13.2 million TV Licences being paid.

Nope I don't think the SABC has that many rows in its Excel spreadsheet (aka "the database"), 24% of South Africans paying must be incorrect.

The first part about the SABC mess is 100% accurate.


That makes more sense, except I'm surprised it is as high as 24%.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics​

24% of 9.4m households & business that SABC have records for.
Stats SA (2018) had 16.7m households
Not sure the number of business in ZA, but remember a TV licence is compulsory for every TV set used in business.

I guesstimate SABC is collecting ~10% of the licenses they entitled to.

 

[Lupus]

some idiots actually think that's a credible threat, just yesterday I heard a voice note on CapeTalk where a very upset tannie was saying exactly that: oh these inconsiderate evil non-payers, they should have a system similar to DSTV so they can cut them off if they don't pay

completely oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of non-payers simply don't watch that SABC crap in the first place and would fall over from laughter if they were threatened with being cut off from it

Actually the vast majority do watch it and don't pay.

 

[ConfusedR]

The ANC is on-top of EVERY disaster.
Somebody need to tell them, that by destroying SOEs and the country's economy, is not like winning a world cup.
To be number 1 on EVERY list, is not necessarily always a good thing.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

Actually the vast majority do watch it and don't pay.

would like to see some credible stats on that, I really doubt it

two local squatter camps: DSTV dishes on every second shack, they don't care about SABC
many others like myself only see SABC every now and then by accident when I hit the wrong channel on the remote

that aside, it is purely a product-market-fit scenario, make it impossible to watch without paying and you will soon find out how many think your product is worth the price ... I'm willing to bet that is a unsustainably low number and would sink the SABC further into the abyss unless they either make it officially free or the up their game

 

[Moosedrool]

some idiots actually think that's a credible threat, just yesterday I heard a voice note on CapeTalk where a very upset tannie was saying exactly that: oh these inconsiderate evil non-payers, they should have a system similar to DSTV so they can cut them off if they don't pay

completely oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of non-payers simply don't watch that SABC crap in the first place and would fall over from laughter if they were threatened with being cut off from it

Oh no. Please don't stop my SABC programming. XD