DA calling on Ndabeni-Abrahams to secure a bailout for the SABC

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to work with the SABC board to find a financial solution for the ailing state broadcaster.

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Ndabeni Abrahams assured parliamentarians last week that the state will be bailing out the SABC.

However, it looks like Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni is blocking that move.

However, the DA’s Shadow Minister of Communications Phumzille Van Damme has called on the board to continue with their quest to find funding from the National Treasury.

” The DA encourages the SABC board and its management to continue negotiations with National Treasury,” Van Damme said.

The SABC continues to face financial problems, with the retrenchment talks surfacing now and again.

Van Damme believes that the good functioning of the SABC depends on Minister playing her role too.

” We have already requested that the Minister of Communications work with the SABC in good faith and putting aside her personal feelings about the SABC which has firmly established its independence.”