No clear answers from the SABC on what's happening with SABC3 from March and shows like The Bold and the Beautiful.

There are still no clear answers from the SABC for South Africa's TV and film industry as to what's happening and planned for the South African public broadcaster's troubled and ratings-challenged SABC3 channel and longtime shows like the America soap The Bold and the Beautiful facing the axe.

SABC3 is not releasing a March schedule 8 days before the month of March starts.

The SABC has also been asked repeatedly when the SABC will be releasing a March schedule, and has been asked what is happening to The Bold and the Beautiful and other programming on the channel from March.

In response Neo Momodu, SABC spokesperson on Tuesday told TVwithThinus in a statement only that the SABC's television division "has been tasked with ensuring that all content investments yield positive returns on 3 pillars, namely; license conditions, public mandate and commercial return".

"It is on this basis that all our programmes are being subjected to this assessment readiness of the new fiscal".

South Africa's TV industry is in the dark and being kept in the dark about the future and the programming line-up on SABC3 and doesn't know what the public broadcaster's plan is with the channel.

Earlier this month TVwithThinus reported that it looks very like that The Bold and the Beautiful is getting dumped from SABC3.

The Bold and the Beautiful, produced by Bell-Phillip Television Productions Inc., is the last remaining American soap opera left on the SABC's channels and has remained a very strong performer on SABC1, as well as with its move to SABC3.

If Bold is finally getting scrapped from the latest March SABC3 schedule it will come two years after SABC3 lost Days of Our Lives in September 2017 to rival e.tv.

As previously reported by TVwithThinus and still unchanged, the preliminary SABC3 March schedule shows The Bold and the Beautiful in its 17:30 timeslot ending on Friday, 1 March and a show called Democracy Gauge taking its place from Monday 3 March in the timeslot.

SABC3 is stocking up on rebroadcasts and repeats to pad the channel's schedule, including Taryn and Sharon at 18:00 on weekdays, a rebroadcast of the SABC2 telenovela Keeping Score on weekdays at 18:30; and yet another repeat of these two shows in the mornings at 09:30 and 10:00 from March.