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As the SABC posts yet another loss, several factors have been identified as key drivers in its decreasing revenue.

South Africa began its migration plan in 2006, setting itself a target to finalise the process to move from analogue to digital by 2011. But government missed the 2011, 2015, 2022 and early-2023 deadlines.

South Africa has missed the deadline to switch off analogue broadcasting by a full eight years, and there's no saying when we will actually get it done.

The State IT Agency witnesses a steep increase in diesel replenishment expenses, jumping from R8.9 million in 2022, to R60.8 million so far this year.

Despite social media taking the lead when it comes to content and access to formation, radio remains the most important and trusted information medium in Africa.

Last year, VBS liquidator Anoosh Rooplal took Usaasa to court in a bid to recover a R102 million loan online marketing company Leratadima had taken out to supply the parastatal Usaasa with digital terrestrial set-top boxes as part of governments Digital Migration Project.

Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says they're still waiting for KZN and the Eastern Cape to complete the broadcast digital migration process.

Ntshavheni said only the Constitutional Court stands in the way of the switch to analogue.

Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni also warned that the economic hubs of Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal would continue to struggle with poor connectivity unless they were hopefully switched off on the 30 June deadline.

The analogue switch-off date is around the corner and Minister of Communications Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says registrations for digital migration are low.