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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.
The metro utility said technicians would replace all high voltage insulators on the affected towers to ensure another power failure does not happen.
“The team is doing all it can to ensure power is restored to all affected areas. Should all go according to plan, we expect the work to be completed by midday on Thursday after which power will be restored.
“We regret the inconvenience caused to our affected customers,” Mangena said.
Radio stations, RSG and SAFM, were also disrupted by the blackout after the power outage hit the SABC’s offices.
“The SABC would like to apologise for the interruption to its broadcasts this morning due to a power failure at its head office in Auckland Park,” the SABC said in a statement.
Fallen tree knocks SABC radio stations off air A tree which fell on City Power lines earlier this week caused power outages in Auckland Park. Image: City Power
Live broadcasts by some SABC radio stations were interrupted early on Thursday due to a major power outage in parts of Johannesburg.
The outage came just as SAfm talk radio host Stephen Grootes spoke to independent energy analyst Mpumelelo Mdhladhla about a 15.63% increase in energy tariffs announced by Eskom.
City Power attributed the outage to the “after-effects” of extensive damage caused to power pylons by a falling tree earlier this week.
“The SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) would like to apologise for the interruption to its broadcasts this morning, due to a power failure at its head office in Auckland Park. This is as a result of power supply issues from City Power,” said SABC spokesperson Mmoni Seapolelo.
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City Power says a team has been working on the matter overnight and is still on-site in Nasrec attending to repair the damage.
City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says preliminary investigation suggests that the damage as the aftermath caused by the tree that fell on our power lines early in the week.
An extensive damage was caused on the pylon structures down the line from where the tree fall happened, resulting in intermittent outages due to high voltage insulators blowing up.
Technicians will this morning be replacing all High Voltage insulators on the affected towers to ensure we don t experience another failure, said Mangena.
SABC radio broadcasts hit by power outages again The SABC s broadcasting on several radio platforms has again been interrupted due to ongoing power failures in the area. FILE: The SABC headquarters in Johannesburg. Picture: Supplied
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JOHANNESBURG - The SABC s broadcasting on several radio platforms has again been interrupted due to ongoing power failures in the area.
This resulted in several electricity lines being damaged, affecting substations. Following the SABC s earlier statement regarding the power failure which affected its radio stations, the public service broadcaster is once again experiencing the recurring broadcasting interruptions on all its radio platforms. The corporation is closely monitoring the situation and working around the clock to resolve the problem, said SABC spokesperson Mmoni Seapolelo.