02-FEB-12
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition has written the following open letter to Minister of Communications Dina Pule regarding its position on executive appointments at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). SOS has also requested clarity on the Mavuso Mbebe legal case.
02-FEB-12
outh Africa’s Minister of Communications Dina Pule has issued a gazette to extend the date for public comment on the two policy directions that relate to two frequency bands to 29 February 2012.
01-FEB-12
South African satellite pay-TV platform TopTV is in the news again very soon after the furore around its thwarted plans to add porn channels to its bouquet. Vino Govender, CEO of TopTV’s parent company On Digital Media (ODM), is set to leave according to Mail & Guardian.
01-FEB-12
Business Day reports that South Africa’s ruling ANC party is continuing its push for an independent media appeals tribunal to regulate the country’s print media.
31-JAN-12
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition notes the intervention of the Minister of Communications to ensure the integrity of the appointment of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) Chief Operating Officer (COO).
31-JAN-12
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition notes weekend media reports that allege that the SABC is not following due process as regards the appointment of a new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and has allegedly already earmarked a person for this position.
30-JAN-12
South Africa’s Minister of Communications Dina Pule has issued the following statement in response to the recent media reports regarding public broadcaster SABC and the South African Post Office.
30-JAN-12
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has issued the following statement in resonse to what it terms ‘the clumsy and rushed attempts’ to fill the vacant position of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at public broadcaster SABC.
30-JAN-12
Veteran South African marketing and media journalist and former editor of Advantage, John Farquhar, passed away on Saturday, 28 January, aged 84.
27-JAN-12
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition (“SOS”) and the Media Diversity Sub-Committee of the Right to Know Campaign (“R2K”) have noted the publishing, late last year, of the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA) – The Issue Paper on the Review of the Broadcasting Regulatory Framework towards a Digitally Converged Environment (“The Broadcasting Regulatory Review”).
25-JAN-12
South African filmmaker Ettiene Kallos received a Global Filmmaking Award from the Sundance Institute and Mahindra at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in the US this week in recognition of his visionary project.
25-JAN-12
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has issued the following statement in response to South African Minister of Communications Dina Pule’s presentation to the media in Pretoria on 24 January.
24-JAN-12
In an open letter addressed to Dr Stephen Mncube, chairperson of the Indpendent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition requests clarification on the Broadcasting Regulatory Policy Review Process.
23-JAN-12
The Independent Producers Organisation (IPO) has issued the following statement congratulating Lulama Mokhobo – a former chairperson of the IPO – on her appointment as Group CEO of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
19-JAN-12
The SOS: Support Public Broadcasting Coalition welcomes the appointment of Thami Ka- Plaatjie to the Board of the SABC and to the position of Deputy Chairperson. Further, the Coalition welcomes the appointment of a permanent new SABC CEO, Lulama Mokhobo.
19-JAN-12
The Right2Know Campaign welcomes the Press Freedom Commission's (PFC) ‘Listening to South Africa Campaign’ and its public hearings which begin on 19 January in Cape Town.
18-JAN-12
Following yesterday’s good news that the crisis-ridden South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) finally has a Group CEO (Lulama Mokhobo) comes the depressing news of yet another suspension at the SABC, this time senior technology executive Gelfand Kausiyo.
17-JAN-12
The South African Screen Federation (SASFED) would like to welcome Lulama Mokhobo as the new permanent Group Chief Executive Officer of SABC, replacing Phil Molefe who was the acting GCEO of the SABC and who had already replaced another interim leader Robin Nicholson.
17-JAN-12
The Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA) welcomes the appointment of Mr Thami Ka-Plaatjie to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as Deputy Chairperson as well as the return of former GE: Public Services, Ms Lulama Mokhobo who now becomes the first woman Group Chief Executive of the SABC.
17-JAN-12
TechCentral reports that South African Minister of Communications Dina Pule has appointed Lulama Mokhobo as the Group CEO of beleaguered public broadcaster SABC, for a period of five years, effective immediately.
