BREAKING. South African government still pushing ahead with new tax plan to help fund the SABC.

The South African government still wants to go ahead by increasing the tax of normal tax payers by 1% to help fund the cash strapped SABC.

The government and the department of communications hatched a plan at the end of last year for additional funding for the SABC (beside what the government is already paying and the income from TV licences: originally the department of communications wanted to (1) do away with SABC TV licences and (2) add a new tax to South African tax payers to the amount of 1% of what they're currently paying.

Although the department of communication no longer wants to do away with SABC TV licences, the second part of adding an additional 1% to tax payers, is still on the table and something the department wants to push through. The department of communications is now going to remove the controversial tax plan from the Public Services Broadcasting bill that the department wants to get signed into law by August this year, and put the new SABC tax plan into a whole new separate ''SABC money bill''.