South Africa's public broadcaster, the SABC, and South Africa's parastatal signal distributor, Sentech, are urged to work together to ensure that television coverage is delivered effectively to remote rural areas across South Africa, Eric Kholwane, the chairperson of parliament's portfolio committee on communications has said.
Eric Kholwane, visiting Limpopo a the Mafefe Village where local residents are unable to get TV signals or radio without satellite dishes, said that remote communities in underserviced areas are still struggling to get access to basic television and radio reception.
''To have a public broadcater or the SABC is a right of South Africans. You cannot have a situation were you put South Africans to commercial so that people must get DStv because they can't receive the SABC. I think it is wrong," Eric Kholwane said.
"The SABC also runs educational programmes. What are we saying to these kids who find themselves in these areas? Are we saying they are not important enough to be able to follow the SABC programmes which happen to plan on SABC TV channels?"
