The looming retrenchments at the cash-strapped SABC will affect all occupational levels, including senior management, parliament heard on Tuesday. Briefing parliament’s communications portfolio committee on the public broadcaster’s turnaround strategy, SABC executives also said that they were pushing for an increase in TV licence fees in an effort to boost revenue. "TV licence fees still remain the second-largest source of revenue for the SABC but the fee needs to be increased and the collection methods strengthened. The television licence fee of R265 has remained unchanged since 2013. Currently the SABC TV licence fee costs an average of 72c a day," said Sylvia Tladi, head of the SABC’s audience services division. Currently, only about 1.8-million households and businesses pay TV licences, out of about 9-million accounts on the SABC database. The SABC, which recorded a net loss of R622m in the financial year ended March, is in the midst of a severe financial crisis. The public broa...
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