You're reading it here first. The Department of Communications has just bowed to public and persistent pressure to extend the deadline for public comment on the somewhat controversial new Public Services Broadcasting Bill.
The bill will radically transform the SABC and public television broadcasting in the country and give sweeping powers over public broadcasting to the minister of communications.
The deadline for submission has just been extended to 15 January 2010, the department of communications informed me.
The extention follows after Media Monitoring Africa, together with the SOS Supporting Public Broadcasting Coalition, has appealed that the deadline be extended from 7 December to the end of March 2010.
