TV License Fee increase

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Do you know that the SABC has increased TV license fees recently? Is this common knowledge - hence was it in the press - or did they quietly increased the fees?

Your feedback wil be great.
 
By how much? I just paid mine and didn't notice a difference.
 
Lol, how sly. Still I'd rather pay the increase rather than a nasty visit from an inspector again.
 
I'd rather pay to install a cctv camera above my doorbell so spot the inspector than pay my TV license. I refuse!
 
The public broadcaster receives television licence revenue to enable it to provide locally-produced radio and television [-]programmes[/-] propaganda in line with its public service mandate.

It's OK, really, you don't have to show us locally produced programmes..... If you really must, buy them from DSTV or something.
 
Any legal expert can help us!!

Quote from CONSUMER PROTECTION BILL 2008

PREAMBLE
The people of South Africa recognise—
That apartheid and discriminatory laws of the past have burdened the nation with
unacceptably high levels of poverty, illiteracy and other forms of social and
economic inequality;
That it is necessary to develop and employ innovative means to—
(a) fulfil the rights of historically disadvantaged persons and to promote their full
participation as consumers;
(b) protect the interests of all consumers, ensure accessible, transparent and
efficient redress for consumers who are subjected to abuse or exploitation in
the marketplace; and
(c) to give effect to internationally recognised customer rights;
..............................

Consumer’s right to select suppliers
13. (1) A supplier must not require, as a condition of offering to supply or supplying any goods or services, or as a condition of entering into an agreement or transaction, that
the consumer must—
(a) purchase any other particular goods or services from that supplier;
(b) enter into an additional agreement or transaction with the same supplier or a designated third party; or
(c) agree to purchase any particular goods or services from a designated third
party,
unless the supplier—
(i) can show that the convenience to the consumer in having those goods or services bundled outweighs the limitation of the consumer’s right to choice;
(ii) can show that the bundling of those goods or services results in economic benefit for consumers; or
(iii) offers bundled goods or services separately and at individual prices.
(2) Except to the extent that any other law provides otherwise, in any transaction between a franchisee and franchisor in terms of their franchise agreement, it is a defence to an allegation that the franchisor, as supplier to the franchisee, has contravened this section if any goods or services that the franchisee was required to purchase from or at the direction of the franchisor are reasonably related to the branded products or services
that are the subject of the franchise agreement.

Consumer’s rights to demand quality service
54. (1) When a supplier undertakes to perform any services for or on behalf of a consumer, the consumer has a right to—
(a) the timely performance and completion of those services, and timely notice of any unavoidable delay in the performance of the services;
(b) the performance of the services in a manner and quality that persons are generally entitled to expect;
(c) the use, delivery or installation of goods that are free of defects and of a quality that persons are generally entitled to expect,/U] if any such goods are required for performance of the services; and
(d) the return of any property or control over any property of the consumer in at east as good a condition as it was when the consumer made it available to the supplier for the purpose of performing such services, having regard to the circumstances of the supply, and any specific criteria or conditions agreed between the supplier and the consumer before or during the performance of the services.
(2) If a supplier fails to perform a service to the standards contemplated in subsection
(1), the consumer may require the supplier to either—
(a) remedy any defect in the quality of the services performed or goods supplied;
or
(b) refund to the consumer a reasonable portion of the price paid for the services
performed and goods supplied, having regard to the extent of the failure.


and much much more ................

Did SABC violate the ACT? Can we sue SABC? :cool:
 
No. Licence fee isn't a payment for services rendered, it's a government 'tax'. Nice try, though...
 
SABC is a department of goverment? Or it is a company?

Why we pay "tax" to a company?

Don't understand why. :confused:

Somewhere between the two - the SABC is a parastatal organisation.

I'm not going to regurgitate the whys & hows of my marathon thread of a few weeks ago... The simple version is that's what the legislation states...
 
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