How to cancel your TV licence in South Africa
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is facing an uphill battle in collecting TV licence fees, as it has seen a decline in both business and domestic licence payments over the last year.
In February 2021, SABC chief financial officer Yolande van Biljon revealed that only 2.5 million of 9.5 million TV licence holders on its database paid their TV licence fees in 2020.
The SABC billed around R3 billion in TV licence fees per year but was only able to collect around R791 million.
What is even more telling is that only 68,000 of the 401,000 new TV licence holders in 2019 renewed their licences a year later.