BREAKING. More than 12 hrs after the death of Nelson Mandela the SABC is incapable or unable to communicate anything regarding programming.

Following the death of Nelson Mandela - and despite years of alleged planning, preparation and forewarning - the SABC, more than 12 hours after the passing of Nelson Mandela, has yet to publicly comment with a statement, and is unable to communicate anything regarding any programming changes and coverage on SABC1, SABC2 and SABC3.

On Friday, despite numerous media enquiries, and following on repeated media enquiries made earlier during 2013, the SABC remains incapable of communicating any programming changes, coverage, coverage plans and what specials the broadcaster is showing on Friday and over the weekend on the three SABC TV channels and the SABC News channel.

The SABC's lack of communication regarding programming and inability to publicly tell viewers what the broadcaster is showing and planning to show following the death of Nelson Mandela, is in stark contrast to M-Net, e.tv, eNCA and MultiChoice and DStv which all put out statements and instantly made preliminary announcement's regarding schedules, programming, scheduling changes and special programming.