{"id":9072,"date":"2009-08-04T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-04T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:36:00","slug":"tv-licence-fee-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9072-tv-licence-fee-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"TV licence fee increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

The increase, effective from last Saturday, was approved by Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda, SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The annual fee for a domestic, business, dealer and lessor licence will increase by R25 – from R225 to R250.<\/p>\n

“Concessionary TV licences, granted to those over the age of 70, as well as to receivers of social grants from the State, will be increased by a mere 8% – from R65 to R70 per annum.”<\/p>\n

This was the third tariff increase in the last 11 years.<\/p>\n

“Had the SABC been allowed annual inflation-related tariff adjustments since 1998, the current R250 fee would now have been R426… The new tariff works out to less than 70c a day”, said Kganyago.<\/p>\n

The public broadcaster receives television licence revenue to enable it to provide locally-produced radio and television programmes in line with its public service mandate.<\/p>\n

TV License fee increase<\/strong><\/a> – give your views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Television licence fees will increase 11%, the SABC said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}