Levy on households to fund SABC is unacceptable
15 December 2020
The proposal recently put forward at the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) that every household in the country must pay a levy to fund the SABC is unethical and unacceptable.
According to a report in the Sunday Times, it was stated at the NEC meeting that it is a given that every household in the country has a TV and, thus, a levy must be paid, regardless of what the people watch on their TV.
The FF Plus finds this totally unacceptable. Due to Affirmative Action (AA), incompetent cadres were appointed and the broadcaster’s top management are paid exorbitant salaries that the SABC simply cannot afford.
In 2015/16, the then chief operating manager of the SABC, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, earned a salary of R4,197 million while the broadcaster had a deficit of R411 million for that financial year.