UK’s move over streaming levies will be music to Malatsi’s ears
It is not only in SA that streamers have hit broadcasters and the film production industry
When communications & digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi first announced that he was considering introducing a “streaming levy” to tax streaming services for operating in SA to fund the seemingly always struggling SABC, many commentators and middle-class South Africans were outraged.
Though the levy has yet to be passed into law, the idea that those who long ago opted for the convenience and higher-quality offerings of streaming services should still have anything to do with the SABC was anathema in an age in which consumer choice talks and the SABC and its TV licence could take a hike as far as they were concerned...
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