Image: Annie Spratt/Usplash Today is the day the SABC transitions into its “new fit-for-purpose purpose structure”, as the public broadcaster promised when it issued a release on the finalisation of its retrenchment process. The SABC board is believed to have endorsed far-reaching proposals to put the broadcaster back onto a sound financial footing and to bring an end to continually having to be bailed out by the taxpayer. Some of the most radical cost-cutting measures will involve programming and continuity presentation. According to a senior SABC executive involved in drafting the measures, a considerable thorn in the side of the corporation has been the