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SA broadcasting moves into digital era

The South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reports that South African broadcasting made a historic move into the digital era on 30 October. Communications Minister Dr Ivy Matsepe-Cassaburi switched on the digital signal for the entire country.

South Africa will be moving from analogue broadcasting to a digital platform. People with older television sets will have to obtain a new set-top box (STB) for analogue-digital conversion.

With the switch on, South Africa will join a few leading countries in the world that have started the digital migration process and it will also place the country well ahead in respect of meeting one of our broadcasting guarantees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The government approved a policy in August that involves subsidising set-top boxes for 7.5 million poorer households. The analogue sets will continue to function until November 2011.

Rashweat Mukundu
Programme Specialist: Media Freedom Monitoring
MISA Regional Secretariat
21 Johann Albrecht Street
Private Bag 13386
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: + 264 61 232 975
Fax:+264 61 248016
Mobile: 00 264 813 675 362
E mail rashweat@misa.org, misaalerts@gmail.com

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