{"id":9489,"date":"2009-09-05T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-05T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T23:54:00","slug":"sabc-to-shut-five-foreign-bureaux-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9489-sabc-to-shut-five-foreign-bureaux-offices.html","title":{"rendered":"SABC to shut five foreign bureaux offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its offices in China, Senegal, Belgium, Brazil and one of two in&nbsp; New York would be closed.<\/p>\n<p>SABC board deputy chair Phi Mtimkulu said: &#8220;The approved budget for the bureaux for this financial year is just under R37 million.<\/p>\n<p>If however the news bureaux had continued, it is projected that spending for the year would have been R60 million in excess of budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the closures, including the cost related to shutting these&nbsp; down, we will save a minimum of R7 million for this year. The major&nbsp; benefit however will be felt in the next financial year when the revision of strategy will result in savings of at least R32.5 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=190419\"><strong>SABC shutting foreign offices<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SABC will close down five of its foreign bureaux and scale down operations in other countries to cut costs, the broadcaster said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489"}],"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=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}