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South Africa’s long-delayed migration to digital communications technology is expected to go ahead at the end of the month but Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird said that the country was simply not ready for it.
The North West, Free State and Northern Cape have switched from analogue to digital terrestrial TV as part of SA’s digital migration programme.
After missing the 2011, 2015 and 2020 goals, the department is confident that it will meet the new target set by the president in his State of the Nation Address earlier this year.
She said over 1 million indigent households have already registered for set top boxes for when the country moves to digital by the March deadline.
Applicants that apply for a subsidised decoder before 1 November will receive one before the analogue broadcasting signals are switched off on 31 March 2022.