Hlaudi Motsoeneng has boasted about securing a multimillion-rand deal between SABC and pay-TV giant MultiChoice, but an expert believes this same contract stifled the country’s hopes of completing a digital migration to Digital Terrestrial Television.
SA’s plans to migrate to DTT formed the focus of the state capture inquiry on Thursday, with testimonies from both Motsoeneng, who was the SABC’s chief operations officer, and broadcasting digital migration expert Lawrence Kruger.
While Motsoeneng bragged about how he strong-armed MultiChoice into paying the SABC more than half a billion rand to host two channels belonging to the public broadcaster on DStv, Kruger believes it was MultiChoice who came out tops.
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ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday lauded slain taxi operator Jabu Baloyi as a hero against the scourge of drugs in SA. Ramaphosa, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte visited Baloyi’s home on Friday. He was killed after confronting a foreign national in Pretoria for selling drugs to children.
Ramaphosa offered the governing party’s condolences to the Baloyi family and praised the heroics of their late family member. Jabu Baloyi has become a major symbol on the issue of drugs because he took a stand and in the course of that he sacrificed his life,” said Ramaphosa. Read more
Source: Timeslive