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SABC too broke to broadcast local football
The state broadcaster owes Safa more than R50m from the previous agreement that ended in April
The nation’s soccer lovers face a Bafana Bafana and Banyana Banyana blackout after it emerged on Monday that the cash-strapped SABC is too broke to broadcast national team matches. Attempts to negotiate a new Bafana and Banyana contract have hit a dead end as the state broadcaster owes the South African Football Association (Safa) more than R50m from the previous agreement that ended in April. Unimpressed Safa CEO Dennis Mumble said the SABC had displayed an indifferent attitude towards football and there was a strong possibility Bafana’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Libya in September and the Seychelles in October would not be televised or broadcast. "They [the SABC] have just been refusing to enter into an agreement with us because they say they do not have any money. So what they want to do is substantially reduce the fee that we charge them or they paid during the last contract," he said. "We have been negotiating since January and we have not got anywhere becau...
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