NEWSWATCH: A call by former communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda that the already over-taxed South African taxpayer should fund the SABC via a 1% tax was roundly rejected by ICASA, reports Mail & Guardian, and 94.7 Highveld Stereo got a reprimand from the BCCSA for running a comedy insert that a listener didn't think funny or cool, reports Business Day.
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Mail & Guardian: Personal tax plan to fund SABC rejected... Perhaps former generals should stick with generalling, or whatever it is that former generals do. The broadcasting regulator, ICASA, apparently told the former comms minister that abolishing licence fees and dumping the burden of SABC funding on the long-suffering taxpayer is simply not on. It also recommends that the controversial Public Service Broadcast Bill be withdrawn and a green and white paper be introduced to consult the public on the future of broadcasting policy in the digital age.
Business Day: Highveld taken to task for comedy skit... Oh dear, the calamity of calumnious uncool language. Now stand-up comedians will need to be very careful - even when poking fun at themselves - and what may be OK in a show or on a DVD might not necessarily be OK when broadcast.
