I am impressed, Rome was not build in a day!. The movement have organised an Indaba on 27-28 August 2011 to engage on the matter of the content that you are raising now, which I agree with you is not in line with the developmental state we seek to build... I do not know where Business Day gets a figure of R7 billion.
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected] > wrote: > > Dear Cde President and SABC Board Member, > > Moderators are not censors. We defend the forum when it is under threat, > but we do not defend third parties from in-good-faith criticism. > > Cde President, the figure given by the Business Day is R7billion. That's > the cheque the SABC is asking for, from taxpayers' money. > > People do not understand this demand. Show-business is known to be a big > money-spinnner. Why is the SABC failing? > > You say you want 60%, as per ANC resolution. So let's say we accept that, > for the sake of argument. Then it means that for every R40 you get from > advertising, etc., the state will give you R60. So now tell us, how much are > you getting from advertising and other non-state sources? If it's R2 billion > over the same period (which I doubt), then we can give you R3 billion. But > now you are asking for R7 billion? > > As SABC you have a credibility problem at the moment, Cde President, which > will not be improved by "moderation", in my humble opinion. > > You know that I have battled long for the SABC, working with all sorts of > characters in a unity-in-action which eventually broke down through > treachery of some of the others, not me. That was the SOS, which is now > fiddling around in the margins, signifying nothing. > > But I must say, in all of that time, although I was supporting it, I never > heard anyone tell me straight, why we really need this thing called public > broadcaster. Let alone why we need it in the form that it exists, bequeathed > by the apartheid regime, as a huge behemoth that gobbles money and which > produces just as much right-wing propaganda as the "free-enterprise" station > that competes with it (ETV). > > Please give us an honest public broadcaster that does not think it is > everything. It does not have to be expensive. Please give us one that has > political education on it which is at least as good as, or if possible > better than, the Communist University. > > Show us something we can support, Cde President, please. > > Right now, the SABC lets us down. > > > VC > > > > > On 17 August 2011 09:46, sabelo gina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear comrades, >> >> Are you aware that the ANC resolution calls for 60 percent funding for the >> public broadcaster? Currently, the public mandate to inform,educate and >> entertain is funded from commercially generated revenue which is not >> sustainable for a kind of a developmental state that we seek to build. Can >> you please have a matured debate about the role of a public broadcaster. >> >> The migration from analogue is a huge infrastructure project that require >> funding from the shareholder, just like shareholders in private companies >> are required to source funding for capital projects. Domza, please moderate >> this debate before it is generalised as per the dictates of the SA media and >> some grupings in society that are not comfortable with SABC remaining a >> public broadcaster. >> >> Comradely, >> >> Cedric Gina. >> >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Matela Mthwalo < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> SABC has asked parliament for 6 billion in the next three years. 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